Abstract
Using Think/No-Think task, Anderson & Green (2001) indicated that individuals could suppress their memory intentionally. In current paper we examined whether distraction strategy was effective for memory suppression in Think/No-Think task and whether the suppression altered with time. We conducted two-day experiment. On day one, thirty-four participants learned noun pairs (cue-target). Next, confronting of cues, they suppress some target and suppressed some target each twelve times. The other target was not presented. During suppression, distraction condition (N=17) used the strategy that was to think nonverbal image but control condition (N=17) didn't. Finally they took cue-recall test. On day two, they took only the test again. The result showed that only control condition suppressed targets and temporal change of memory suppression was not seen. It suggests that distraction strategy is ineffective and that memory suppression have temporal stability. In further research, one needs to consider the
strategies other than distraction strategy.
