AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
While trying to remember who was in her classes last semester, Zelda could only think of her current classmates. She was suffering from:
A
Proactive Interference
B
Retroactive Interference
C
Anterograde Amnesia
D
Retrograde Amnesia
E
Posthypnotic suggestion
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Retroactive interference occurs when the learning of new information interferes with the recall of old information from long-term memory. For example, once you have learned a new mobile number, it is often very difficult to recall your old number.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the case of retroactive interference, learning new things can make it more difficult to recall things that we already know. For example, a musician might learn a new piece, only to find that the new song makes it more difficult to recall an older, previously learned piece.

Detailed explanation-3: -Retroactive interference occurs when new When a person replaces their phone number, the new number becomes making it difficult to recall the old phone number. This competition between the new and old phone numbers is an example of retroactive interference.

Detailed explanation-4: -Retroactive interference (retro=backward) occurs when you forget a previously learnt task due to the learning of a new task. In other words, later learning interferes with earlier learning-where new memories disrupt old memories.

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