Directed Forgetting and Self-reference: A New Method Based on Storage-retrieval Model

Abstract

Abstract: The current debate on directed forgetting explanations under self-reference conditions is focused on the point of coding and inhibition, with little study in implicit self-reference conditions. The main reason that previous studies have been controversial is that no quantitative research methods have been used to analyze the storage and retrieval of information during directed forgetting. In the future, researchers can use a storage-retrieval model with multinomial modeling technology on directed forgetting studies or other studies on memory and forgetting. The analysis of the parameters of the storage and retrieval process can be helpful to explain the internal psychological mechanism associated with the phenomenon.

Key words: directed forgetting, self-reference, storage-retrieval model, mental mechanism

摘要： 当前对有意遗忘以及自我参照条件下有意遗忘解释的争论主要集中在编码和抑制的观点上，并且很少有研究内隐自我参照条件下的有意遗忘。以往的研究之所以会造成争议，其主要原因是没有使用一种可量化的研究方法来分析有意遗忘过程中信息的储存和提取。未来有意遗忘以及其他记忆和遗忘的研究可采用储存—提取模型并结合多项式建模技术，通过对储存和提取过程的参数分析帮助研究者解释有关现象产生时伴随的内部心理机制。

关键词: 有意遗忘, 自我参照, 储存—提取模型, 心理机制

CLC Number:

B842.3

SONG Yaowu, WANG Runzhou, LIU Changhao, ZHAO Xiaojun. Directed Forgetting and Self-reference: A New Method Based on Storage-retrieval Model[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2018, 16(1): 1-12.

宋耀武, 王润洲, 刘昌昊, 赵小军. 有意遗忘与自我参照：基于储存—提取模型的新方法[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2018, 16(1): 1-12.

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