Question

Suppose you (a student) are asked by a teacher to learn a poem you will recite in front of your class. Soon after, both you and a classmate, J.P., are asked by another teacher to learn the lyrics to an unfamiliar song. When you and J.P. are later asked to remember the song lyrics, you have a much more difficult time recalling them than J.P. does. This impairment of your performance is most likely attributable to:

Answer 1

Answer:

proactive interference

Explanation:

proactive interference refers to a situation when an old information is blocking the retrieval of the new information.

When you are told to recite the poem, you most likely concentrate to fill your memory with the lines from the poem. So, when you are told to remember the lyric of the song, the lines of the poem will act as the old information that prevent you from effectively processing the new lyric of the song.

This will makes you have more difficulties in recalling the lyric compared to your classmates who was not require to retrieve any information before the lyric.