Suppose You (A Student) Are Asked by a Teacher to Learn

question 19

Multiple Choice

Suppose you (a student) are asked by a teacher to learn a poem you will recite in front of your class. Soon after, both you and a classmate, J.P., are asked by another teacher to learn the lyrics to an unfamiliar song. When you and
J.P. are later asked to remember the song lyrics, you have a much more difficult time recalling them than J.P. does.
This impairment of your performance is most likely attributable to.

• A)proactive interference.
• B)your overloading the phonological loop.
• C)a release from proactive interference.
• D)a recency effect.

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