Intervening Material Is Most Likely to Cause an Increase in Forgetting

question 6

Multiple Choice

Intervening material is most likely to cause an increase in forgetting when the intervening material is very similar to the information that is to be remembered.What is this called

• A) motivated forgetting
• B) retrieval failure 
• C) ineffective encoding
• D) interference

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