Postman And Underwood

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

A research study to investigate if new learning interferes with previous learning

Question 2

Procedure

Answer 2

Ppts were divided into two groups. Group A were asked to learn a lost of word pairs i.e. cat-tree, they were then asked to learn a second paired word was different i.e. cat-glass. Group B were asked to learn the first list of word pairs only. Both groups were asked to recall the first list of word pairs.

Question 3

Findings

Answer 3

Group B recall of the first list was more accurate than the recall of group A.

Question 4

Conclusion

Answer 4

This suggests that learning items in the second list interfered with ppts’ ability to recall the list. This is an example of retroactive interference.