Running top: INTERFERENCE and SHORT-TERM RETENTION The Effect of Different Rates of Interfering Activity On Short-Term Retention of Individual Items The Effect of Different Rates of Interpolated Activity On Short- Term Retention of Individual Items We encounter a great deal of new information in our daily lives. Among other things, we meet new people, look up new telephone numbers, discover new places and run across new ideas. When we encounter something that we want to …showed first 75 words of 2031 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2031 total…Dhawan, Meena (1976). Short-Term Retention of Pictures and Words as a Function of Type Distraction and Length of Delay Interval. Memory & Cognition, 4(1), p11-15. Peterson, Lloyd R. & Peterson, Margaret J. (1959). Short-Term Retention of Individual Verbal Items. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58(3), p193-198. Figure Captions Figure 1. The means and standard deviations of the proportion of recall of all the participants in the three conditions. Figure2. The mean proportion of recall of participant A in the three conditions.