CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The “disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of information” refers to the problem that people can have while trying to learn a new set of skills that are similar to information already known and internalized.

Detailed explanation-2: -a) Proactive Interference: the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.

Detailed explanation-3: -Proactive interference (PI) refers to the reduction in memory performance for recently learned information resulting from the prior learning of related materials and has been shown to play an important role in forgetting (for a review, see Anderson & Neely, 1996).

Detailed explanation-4: -inhibition, which can be either retroactive or proactive. In retroactive inhibition, new learning interferes with the retention of old memories; in proactive inhibition, old memories interfere with the retention of new learning.