release from proactive interference

restoration of the capacity to readily remember items of one type after switching categories of materials to be recalled. For example, successively trying to memorize dates leads to the buildup of proactive interference, causing a decline in immediate recall of dates; switching to remembering names releases proactive interference, and retention improves (i.e., names are remembered more easily than dates were).

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Psychology term of the day

February 18th 2025

perspectivism

n. a philosophical position in which it is assumed that there is no objective, context-independent truth. Perspectivism is sometimes applied to psychotherapy. [derived from the work of Friedrich Nietzsche]