A student has opted to study both Spanish and French in school. Before the exams, the student spends one day memorizing basic Spanish phrases and the next day memorizing the same phrases in French. During the exam, the student is not able to recall the Spanish phrases. The student keeps remembering the French phrases instead of the Spanish ones. In the context of retrieval failure, this is an example of

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A student has opted to study both Spanish and French in school. Before the exams, the student spends one day memorizing basic Spanish phrases and the next day memorizing the same phrases in French. During the exam, the student is not able to recall the Spanish phrases. The student keeps remembering the French phrases instead of the Spanish ones. In the context of retrieval failure, this is an example of
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anterograde amnesia.
decay.
repression.
retroactive interference.

GPT-4o mini · Answer

This scenario is an example of **retroactive interference**. Retroactive interference occurs when new information (in this case, the French phrases) interferes with the recall of previously learned information (the Spanish phrases). The student is unable to recall the Spanish phrases because the newly learned French phrases are interfering with that memory.