Proactive Interference and Retroactive Interference Are Mechanisms That Contribute to

question 163

Multiple Choice

Proactive interference and retroactive interference are mechanisms that contribute to

• A) forgetting.
• B) Korsakoff's syndrome.
• C) encoding specificity.
• D) level of processing.

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Definitions:

Necessary Truths

Propositions that are true under all possible circumstances; their negation results in a contradiction.

A Priori Truths

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Empirical Statements

Assertions about the world that are verifiable through observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.

Contingent

Not necessary; could have been otherwise. What we believe (or a state of affairs) is contingent if we can imagine its being other than it is.