Memory retardation

In learning psychology, memory inhibition is the effect that difficulties in memorizing a learning material can , among other things, be related to events that took place before or after learning . The Austrian psychologist Hubert Rohracher (1963) distinguished the following types of memory inhibitions:

1. retroactive inhibition (retroactive inhibition): The learning and retention of a material learned first is hindered by learning material that is practiced later. This can be observed particularly when the second learning content has similarities with the first learning content. For example, a phone number is easily forgotten if someone remembers another phone number.
2. Proactive inhibition (anticipatory inhibition): An immediately preceding learning process impairs the learning of subsequent content.
3. Inhibition of similarity ( Ranschburg inhibition ): Disturbing interference between two learning processes is particularly strong when the subject matter is similar in terms of content .
4. associative inhibition (reproductive inhibition): Memory content that already with other associates are, are more difficult to connect with new content, as if this is not the case.
5. Ecphoric inhibition (memory inhibition ): The reproduction of a previously learned material is negatively influenced if new material is learned shortly before it is reproduced.
6. Affective inhibition : If strong affective excitement (e.g. an argument) occurs between memorizing and reproducing a subject matter , this affects the reproduction of the learned content.

literature

• Hubert Rohracher: Introduction to Psychology. 13th edition. Psychologie-Verlags-Union, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-621-27038-8