Is retrieval-induced forgetting an inhibitory process?

Three experiments investigated memory performance in the retrieval practice paradigm (Anderson, Bjork, & Bjork, 1994; Anderson & Spellman, 1995). This paradigm produces a retrieval-induced forgetting effect, wherein practicin g some members of a studied category decreases the recall of other members of that category relative to a baseline. Our findings indicate that the ret rieval-induced forgetting effect is replicable but that previous findings s upporting an inhibitory account of this phenomenon may not be.