Abstract
Semantic positive forgetting refers to making to-be-remembered (TBR) vs. to-be-forgotten (TBF) judgments for sequentially presented sentences on the basis of the semantic content of the sentences. Geiselman (1975) has shown that a logical order of presentation for the TBF as well as for the TBR sentences facilitates TBR-sentence recall. The results of the present experiment show that the TBF sentences are also recalled better if presented in a logical order. This paradox of better recall of both TBF and TBR material resulting from the logical ordering of TBF material was interpreted as supporting a “concise-differential-grouping” notion in which sequential organization is said to facilitate the formation of functionally distinct TBR and TBF memory groupings.
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