You are taking two psychology courses this term, a course in cognition and a course in learning. Both professors are giving midt
erm exams tomorrow. You have just finished studying for your cognition test, and are attempting to study for the learning exam. However, you find it difficult to recall the material on learning. You are experiencing ______.
In this scenario while taking two psychology courses of cognition and learning and are giving midterm exams tomorrow. Once you finished studying for your cognition test, and are attempting to study for the learning exam. While you find it difficult to recall the material on learning; you are experiencing proactive interference. It refers to the interference which effect of previously learned materials on the acquisition and retrieval of newer materials. If we take an example in today's life it could be the difficulty in remembering a friend's new phone number after having previously learned the old number.
Ava is able to do this because of an improvement in selective attention. This is a mechanism to focus on a specific thing in the environment though certain amount of time.
