Understanding Retroactive Interference

Easy Unit 5: Cognitive Psychology Forgetting And Memory Construction

Forgetting can occur for a variety of reasons, including trace decay, interference, and motivated forgetting. Among these, interference is particularly significant because it suggests that new information can displace or confuse what was previously learned. There are two types of interference: proactive interference and retroactive interference.

Which of the following best illustrates the concept of retroactive interference in memory?

Remembering your old phone number after learning a new one.

Forgetting a task because you were distracted by your phone.

Struggling to recall your high school locker combination after learning a new one at college.

Failing to remember a list of words after sleeping.

Forgetting your mother's maiden name after recalling the name of a new acquaintance.

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