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Building consensus about the past : schema consistency and convergence in socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting

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Title: Building consensus about the past : schema consistency and convergence in socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting
Related: Memory, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2010), p.170-184
DOI: 10.1080/09658210903159003
Publisher: Psychology Press
Date: 2010
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 170100 Psychology 170200 Cognitive Sciences
Author/Creator: Stone, Charles B
Author/Creator: Barnier, Amanda J
Author/Creator: Sutton, John
Author/Creator: Hirst, Willliam
Description: A large body of literature on “within-individual retrieval-induced forgetting” (WI-RIF; Anderson, Bjork, & Bjork, 1994) shows that repeatedly retrieving some items, while not retrieving other related items, facilitates later recall of the practised items, but inhibits later recall of the non-practised related items. This robust effect has recently been extended to “socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting” (SS-RIF; Cuc, Koppel, & Hirst, 2007). People who merely listen to a speaker retrieving some, but not other, items—even people participating as speakers or listeners in conversations—show the same facilitation and inhibition. We replicated and extended the SS-RIF effect with a structured story (Experiment 1) and in a free-flowing conversation about the story (Experiment 2). Specifically, we explored (1) the degree to which participants subsequently form a coherent “collective memory” of the story and (2) whether schema consistency of the target information influences both WI-RIF and SS-RIF. In both experiments, speakers and listeners showed RIF (that is, WI-RIF and SS-RIF, respectively), irrespective of the schema consistency of the story material. On final recall, speakers and listeners described similar renderings of the story. We discuss these findings in terms of the role of “silences” in the formation of collective memories.
Description: 15 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 170100 Psychology
Subject Keyword: 170200 Cognitive Sciences
Subject Keyword: silences
Subject Keyword: collective memory
Subject Keyword: schema consistency
Subject Keyword: forgetting
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/120058
Identifier: ISSN:0965-8211
Identifier: mq-rm-2010001875
Language: eng
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