Retroactive interference
In contrast to proactive interference, retroactive interference describes the influence or superposition of what was learned earlier by what was learned later. The target behavior is influenced by other memory contents acquired afterwards. The disruptive material acts backwards in time, i.e. retroactive. The prerequisite is, on the one hand, that the material is very similar and, on the other hand, that sufficient storage could not take place between the learning phases.
Example: You remember your own new telephone number and after a while you can no longer reproduce the old number, even though it has been used for years. Or: we have memorized directions to A and then memorize the route to B. If we now want to get to A, but confuse the directions with the way to B, there is retroactive interference.
The fact that learning with breaks is more successful than learning without breaks is causally attributed to retroactive interference.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ James E. Mansur: Learning and Memory . Ed .: Pearson Education. 5th edition. Munich 2004, ISBN 3-8273-7086-8 .
- ^ Rainer M. Bösel: Thinking: A textbook . Ed .: Hogrefe. Göttingen 2001.