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Age stereotypes and the disruption of directed forgetting

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2010, v.22 no.4, pp.529-547
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2010.22.4.006

Abstract

Can people intentionally control their memories, when they are instructed to suppress irrelevant information? What happens when people have been admonished to forget stereotypical information in a stereotype activated situation? This study examined the effects of directed forgetting of stereotypical information by using the list method. Participants studied stereotypical and nonstereotypical words either with an initially activated social category (elderly people prime) or with no social category (neutral prime). They were then instructed to either forget or remember the studied words. Unfortunately, the results showed word list effects so that stereotypical items were overall better recalled than neutral words, regardless of stereotype activation, instruction of directed forgetting and secondary task. However, partly consistent with Macrae et al. (1997), the directed-forgetting effects were not founded for the stereotypical items, when categorical primes were activated, whereas they were obtained for nonstereotypical information in the neutral condition. Implications of the outcome for stereotype suppression are discussed.

keywords
고정관념의 활성화, 지시망각, 인출억제, 단어목록, 이중과제, stereotype activation, directed forgetting, retrieval inhibition, word list, secondary task

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