| The directed forgetting effect is said to have occurred when information is presented, some is cued to be forgotten, and that material is unable to be recalled later because of the forget cue. The present study used the list method of directed forgetting and looked at selective directed forgetting across two different list types (related and unrelated), while directly comparing two types of appendices; an original, grammatically inconsistent version and a modified, grammatically consistent version.;In this study, subjects were instructed to read sentences about two characters in List 1. Participants were given sentences from an original appendix or from a revised appendix. Within each of those groups, sentences were either thematically related or unrelated. After the List 1 presentation, some participants were given directions to forget information about one character. All were then presented with a second list of sentences about a third character, Joe. After studying both lists, all subjects were given a recall test for List 1 (the first two characters) and a second recall test for List 2 (the third character).;A main effect of appendix revealed that the original appendix was recalled better than the revised appendix overall. It was also seen that when participants were told to forget one character, they recalled more sentences correctly about the to-be-remembered character than the to-be-forgotten character. However, these results are not conclusive and further investigation on the role of verb type in remembering and forgetting is needed. |
