Question

Suppose you cannot remember the names of the teachers you had in junior high school because the teachers you have had since then are getting in the way. This is called _______. ​
a. proactive interference ​
b. retroactive interference
c. ​decay
d. ​repression

Answer 1

Answer:

B.

Explanation:

Retroactive Interference can be defined as those interferences in learning when an old task interferes with the learning of the new task. Retro means backward, which suggests that when a new task is learned, old tasks are forgotten.

In the given case, unable to recall the names of the teachers of the junior high school because of the names of other teachers one had since is an example of retroactive interference. One is not able to recall the names of old teachers because the names of new teachers have been stored in the memory which interferes with the recalling of old names.

Thus, the correct answer is option B.