Suppose That You Are Having Trouble Recalling the Information for a Question

question 69

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are having trouble recalling the information for a question about Baddeley's theory because the information about Atkinson and Shiffrin's theory (which you learned earlier) keeps interfering. This phenomenon is called

• A) proactive interference.
• B) the recency effect.
• C) the primacy effect.
• D) chunking.

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