Concept information
Preferred term
associative blocking
Definition
- A mechanism used to explain the phenomenon of interference in memory, based on the idea of competition between memory traces. A cue fails to recover a memory because it is more strongly associated with another memory.
Broader concept
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• McGeoch, J. A. (1942). The psychology of human learning: An introduction. Longmans.
[Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
Creator
- Frank Arnould
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-K7X9K20C-6
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