Isabel Studied Spanish All Through High School and the First

question 84

Multiple Choice

Isabel studied Spanish all through high school and the first two years of college. However, she never visited any Spanish-speaking communities and has not spoken the language in over ten years. Her inability to remember the Spanish word for "horse" is likely attributed to _____.

• A) retroactive interference
• B) proactive interference
• C) storage decay
• D) encoding failure

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