Samantha Learns French One Semester, and Then Takes a Spanish

question 75

Multiple Choice

Samantha learns French one semester, and then takes a Spanish class the next semester. While in Spanish class, Samantha has difficulty learning the new vocabulary as she keeps remembering the French words she has learned. This is an example of which of the following?

• A) proactive interference
• B) retroactive interference
• C) decay
• D) categorical clustering

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