Michelle,whose First Language Is Spanish,is Currently Learning French in University

question 166

Multiple Choice

Michelle,whose first language is Spanish,is currently learning French in university.When she goes to see her Spanish-speaking grandmother,she inserts French words into her Spanish.Michelle is experiencing:

• A)proactive interference.
• B)blocking.
• C)retroactive interference.
• D)transfer-appropriate processing.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A training approach characterized by making associations between a stimulus in the environment and one that occurs naturally, causing a conditioned behavior.

Social Setting

The physical and social context in which people live or in which something happens or develops.

Negative Punishment

A behavior modification technique involving the removal of a desirable stimulus following an undesired behavior to decrease the likelihood of the behavior’s occurrence.

Positive Punishment

Adding an unpleasant stimulus to decrease a behavior, part of operant conditioning in psychology.