AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Retroactive interference (RI) is a primary source of forgetting and occurs when new information disrupts or damages an existing memory.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Retroactive interference refers to conditions in which new learning interferes with old learning. Forgetting may be due to decay, a failure to reinstate the context of initial learning, or interference. Retroactive interference (new learning interferes with old) is contrasted with proactive (old interferes with new).

Detailed explanation-5: -Retroactive interference occurs when newly learned information interferes with the encoding or recall of previously learned information. If a participant was asked to recall a list of words, and was then immediately presented with new information, it could interfere with remembering the initial list.