title: Script-driven processing affords protection from retrieval-induced forgetting in the recall of everyday activities.
abstract: Using the retrieval-practice paradigm, we examined the effects of script and selective retrieval on the recall of high- and low-typicality actions of everyday activities. The participants studied two activities, Getting up in the morning and Going to a restaurant, each consisting of high-typicality and low-typicality actions. They then practised half of the high- or low-typicality actions of an activity, with recall of the unpractised activity serving as baseline. Script-driven processing prompted the recall of high-typicality actions and produced more high-typicality than low-typicality intrusions. Selective retrieval practice of the high-typicality script actions did not have an adverse effect on the recall of high- or low-typicality actions, while practising low-typicality actions not representative of the scripts produced retrieval-induced forgetting of other low-typicality actions. Scripts provide the cognitive system with flexibility and economy, but side-effects such as high-typicality intrusions and poor memory for detail can also derive from script processing.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, San Sebastián, Spain. elvira.garcia@ehu.es
authors.forename: Elvira
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: García-Bajos
authors.forename: Malen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Migueles
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D055815:Young Adult