Directed forgetting has been studied by instructing Ss to forget either (1) an initial list or (2)
individually selected words. Differential encoding was hypothesized to be responsible for …

In two experiments, subjects were instructed either to remember or to forget each word.
Following study, two tests were given, one a direct test of memory requiring conscious …

Three experiments contrasted the effects of directed forgetting instructions when given by
item and given by list. In Experiment 1, which involved free recall of a single-category list …

In directed forgetting, the item method presents instructions to remember or to forget
individual items; the list method presents a single mid-list instruction to forget the first half of …

Five experiments examined whether retrieval-induced-forgetting effects are observed for
implicit tests of memory. In each experiment participants first studied category-exemplar …

In 5 experiments, the authors examined the influence of associative information in list-
method directed forgetting, using the extralist cuing procedure (Nelson & McEvoy, 2005) …

Four experiments were conducted in support of a role for memory retrieval inhibition in
directed forgetting. In each experiment, subjects were presented a list of words, some of …

Retrieval practice with particular items from memory can impair the recall of related items on
a later memory test. This retrieval-induced forgetting effect has been ascribed to inhibitory …

When told we can forget some of the information we have studied, our memory for that
information is impaired. This is the phenomenon of directed forgetting. Two methods are …

Explanations of directed forgetting—the poorer memory for information that we are instructed
to forget (F items) than for information that we are instructed to remember (R items)—have …