V.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

The experimentation was done in San Mateo National High School and was

successfully conducted to the selected junior high school students with the help of

faculty teachers and the approval of the Principal IV, Mr. Absalon Fernandez. Videos

were presented to the respondents and questions were given for them to answer. The

researchers grouped the 30 students in to two: experimental group and control group in

which the experimental group got most of the high scores than the control group.

As stated by the Theory of Interference, memory marks or traces that overlap interfere

with each other and erase them. In other words, if the material learned is to remain in

memory for a long time then it will have to make memory traces in our brain. All of us

learn and experience memory traces. When more and more memory traces are formed,

there is some overlapping of the traces, which results in obliteration and interference.

And according to this theory, Inhibition or prevention of earlier learning and

remembering by later learning is known as Retroactive Inhibition. The students in the

experimental group got most of the correct answers unlike the control group who

watched the video without a distraction. Retroactive Inhibition was present in the

students from the experimental group wherein they watched the video that is to be

answered and then watched another as a diversion to the first video.

The researcher used the Independent t-test formula to compare the means of two

unrelated groups of samples. And Cohen’s d is used to indicate the standardized

difference between two means.

VI. CONCLUSIONS

On the statistics obtained by the researchers of the study, the treatment prior to

the Interference Theory and memory retention of the selected junior high school

students of the San Mateo National High School has no significant effect. The

researchers also concluded that both proactive and retroactive inhibition has little to no

effect to the participants. Students easily remember things when something triggers the

memory however old the information can be and easily forget things when something

happened beyond their perception which makes them rely on the new information given.

But that does not necessarily mean that the Interference theory particularly the

Proactive and Retroactive Inhibitions have a huge impact on their memory retention and

affects the student’s attentiveness at school.

VII. RECOMMENDATIONS

Based on the findings of the study, the researchers have come up with the idea

that the study is possibly common and there may be other studies associated with this

study. The researchers concluded that the study can be of great help to future

researchers especially to the psychology practitioners to further expand their research

and come up with better and more proficient results.