On the second day of class,you can't remember your psychology professor's name.In fact,you have difficulty remembering your other professors' names.If this is an example of interference,where are those memories?
A) The memories are still stored in long-term memory.
B) The memories no longer exist.
C) The memories are located in the nodes between sensory memory and short-term memory.
D) The memories are located in the primary memory cache of working memory.

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Interference refers to the phenomenon where information already stored in memory interferes with the ability to encode or retrieve new information. In this case, the difficulty remembering the professors' names suggests interference from previously stored information, but the memories themselves are still stored in long-term memory.

On the Second Day of Class,you Can't Remember Your Psychology