As Jake Gets to Class, He Realizes That He Did

question 356

Multiple Choice

As Jake gets to class, he realizes that he did not study for the quiz today. He quickly scans the information in the chapter but makes an "F" on the quiz. Jake's quick scan of the chapter failed to store sufficient information to form a useful memory to use in taking the quiz, a type of forgetting known as

• A)proactive interference.
• B)retroactive interference.
• C)cue-dependent forgetting.
• D)encoding failure.

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