Intervening Material Is Most Likely to Cause an Increase in Forgetting

question 57

Multiple Choice

Intervening material is most likely to cause an increase in forgetting when the intervening material is very similar to the information that is to be remembered as a result of

• A) ineffective encoding.
• B) motivated forgetting.
• C) retrieval failure.
• D) interference.

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