Associative Inhibition: II. A Group-Administered Encoding Task Measuring Susceptibility to Proactive Effects during Learning

Two forms of a paper-and-pencil encoding task incorporating paired-associate learning were developed to measure proactive inhibitory processes during learning. These forms were given to groups of children, adolescents and adults, a total of 159 subjects in their classrooms. Results indicated group administration is quite effective for measuring proactive inhibitory processes and such a method may readily yield measures that otherwise would require the classical presentation of paired-associate materials in tedious individual administration.