Practice mode Psychology

A student who learned German at secondary school takes a French course at college and now struggles to remember German. What is this an example of?

Correct answer A. retroactive interference

Explanation

Retroactive interference occurs when newly learned material, here French, disrupts the recall of information learned earlier, here German.

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