You memorize your four-digit PIN number for your bank card,but you also store this number on your phone.You keep your bank card and your phone in your backpack,and a thief steals your backpack.When you get your new bank card,you have to make up a new PIN,but every time you try to withdraw money,you can only remember the old PIN.What best explains this combination of remembering and forgetting?
A) schemas
B) decay
C) amnesia
D) interference

Question

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The interference theory suggests that old memories interfere with the retrieval of new memories, making it difficult to remember recently learned information. In this case, the old PIN is interfering with the ability to remember the newly created one.

You Memorize Your Four-Digit PIN Number for Your Bank Card,but