Retroactive inhibition, hypnosis, and hypnotic amnesia

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Abstract
An experiment was performed to investigate the relationship of hypnosis and posthypnotic amnesia to retroactive inhibition. 4 groups of 10 Ss each learned lists of adjectives in a retroactive inhibition paradigm. 2 of the groups learned the intervening list while they were hypnotized. Ss of one of these were given instructions for posthypnotic amnesia, while Ss of the other were told to recall what they had learned under hypnosis. The savings and recall scores of both these groups for items of the original list were not different from a third group that learned all 3 lists in the waking state. All 3 groups showed substantial retroactive inhibition when compared to a control group that learned no intervening list.

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