You Are Taking Both a Spanish and a French Course

question 228

Multiple Choice

You are taking both a Spanish and a French course this summer. As you study the vocabulary words for your French test, you begin to realize that the French words are disrupting your memory for the Spanish vocabulary words you studied previously. This is an example of:

• A) source monitoring errors.
• B) the spacing effect.
• C) proactive interference.
• D) retroactive interference.

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Definitions:

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