Reading as interference for remembering of self-help words
| dc.contributor.author | Toews, Stuart Berl | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-06-01T19:19:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-06-01T19:19:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000-05-01T00:00:00Z | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Psychology | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Information in self-help psychology books may affect memories by interfering with accurate recall of past events. These effects were evaluated by investigating the retroactive interference of memory for self-help information on previously learned material. One-hundred-seve ty-five women in introductory psychology served in a 2 x 2 x 2 MANOVA design varying book reading (present/absent), amount of learning (processing once or twice), and retention interval (2 or 3 weeks). Participants learned a list of words (half from the book) in Session 1 and in Session 2 evaluated a new list of words to discriminate which words appeared in the first list and which did not. A complex set of significant results appeared in the data. In general, however, there was not strong support for the hypothesis that information in self-help books interferes with previously learned verbal material. | en_US |
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| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/2266 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.title | Reading as interference for remembering of self-help words | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |