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long term memory combined with short term memory causes touretts. write about stuff in motor movment would ya

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this is interesting:) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.242.84.119 (talk) 16:37, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tone of article[edit]

The current state of the article sound more like a manuscript than it does a Wikipedia article. I realize interference theory is a rather technical part of psychology, but the writing here sounds like it is intended for graduate students or researchers when it should be aimed at high school students. I, Jethrobot ^{drop me a line} (note: not a bot!) 06:40, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Additional Information[edit]

Proactive Interference - Information learned EARLIER interferes with informaiton learned LATER. Retroactive Interference - Information learned LATER interferes with information learned EARLIER. Special:Contributions/64.22.255.162|64.22.255.162]] (talk) 16:23, 19 February 2015 (UTC)Chelsea Benton Underwood did not discover interference in 1915 - he was born in 1915. Please fix.[reply]

Opening needs work[edit]

I see the person above me has similar concerns. First of all:

"Interference theory is theory regarding human memory. Interference occurs in learning when there is an interaction between the new material and transfer effects of past learned behavior, memories or thoughts that have a negative influence in comprehending the new material."

Leaving the "theory is theory" chancre for a moment, why the emphasis on "learning" rather than a safer, broader frame of information being uploaded to memory? Learning is a something quite different, or at least a subset of this.

"past learned behavior" ... what else is there but past, for learned behavior?

"that have"—what's that referring back to? What are the agents?

Why is the opening definition in terms of only of the existing affecting the new, when two kinds of interference are then announced, one of which is clearly in the opposite direction?

Those two articles referred to are pretty appalling (and apparently only from an educational theory perspective).

This is in a bad state. Tony (talk) 12:40, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not a single mention of Jonides et al. (2008)? How can an article on this topic not bring that in. Also Berman, Jonides, and Lewis (2009). Tony (talk) 05:41, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is the relationship of this theory to 'forgetting' is specified correctly in the opening section, or made clear for readers who are coming upon this term for the first time? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TechSciEco (talk • contribs) 10:16, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]