Question

You move to a new house and memorize your new phone number. now, you can't remember your old phone number. this is an example of

Answer 1

This is called Retroactive interference. It happens when a new learning interferes, modifies or eliminates information that we already had stored in the long-term memory. In this case, the learning of the new telephone number eliminated the memory of the telephone number learned before.

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