If You Learn Four Sets of Material That Are Similar

question 101

Multiple Choice

If you learn four sets of material that are similar to one another (for example, four European languages) , you are more likely to forget them than if you had learned four entirely different kinds of information (for example, French, botany, geography, and chess) . Why are you more likely to forget the similar sets of information?

• A) interference
• B) amnesia
• C) serial-order effect
• D) context-dependent memory

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