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retroactive inhibition
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retroactive inhibition, interference
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(Psychology) Psychol the tendency for the retention of learned material or skills to be impaired by subsequent learning, esp by learning of a similar kind Compare proactive inhibition
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Other research has shown that reward omission can produce retroactive interference with memory for a previously visited maze location (Terry, 1996), suggesting that omission can affect memory processing.
The effects of reward omission and change on proactive interference ... by Terry, William Scott / The Psychological Record
Koster, Degel, and Piper (2002) reported that retroactive interference affected an implicit odor memory task, in which participants were asked to judge the 'goodness of fit' between pictures of a room and particular odors.
Resistance to interference of olfactory perceptual learning by Stevenson, Richard J.; Case, Trevor I.; Tomiczek, Caroline / The Psychological Record
 
 
 
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