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immediate and short-term data simply decay or are lost through
interference is a matter of controversy. However, evidence is
clearer that interference affects retention of information in
long-term storage. Retention of the word happy (learned as a
paired associate of table) seems to be subject to the
interference of a strong tendency to associate table with...
...the floor to shift gears when the shift lever is on the
steering wheel) appear occasionally but tend to be easily
overcome. Since transfer necessarily involves retention, the
best schedules minimize forgetting by minimizing the time
between training and transfer. ...the similarity, the poorer the
recall tends to be. Although proactive inhibition, so called to
indicate that it acts forward from the first-learned task to the
second, produces appreciably less forgetting than