Which of the following is an example of proactive interference?
A)After staying in eight motel rooms in the last month, you cannot remember your room number in your current motel.
B)After memorizing eight poems in the last month, you cannot remember the first one you learned.
C)After a severe head concussion, you have difficulty studying and remembering new information.
D)When you try to tell a story, you leave out odd details and fill in the gaps with reasonable expectations of what should have happened.

Question

​Which of the following is an example of proactive interference?
A)After staying in eight motel rooms in the last month, you cannot remember your room number in your current motel.
B)​After memorizing eight poems in the last month, you cannot remember the first one you learned.
C)​After a severe head concussion, you have difficulty studying and remembering new information.
D)​When you try to tell a story, you leave out odd details and fill in the gaps with reasonable expectations of what should have happened.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Proactive interference occurs when old information learned previously interferes with new information being learned currently. In this case, the previous motel room numbers are interfering with the current number being remembered.

Answer: B
 Similar to the previous answer, the old poems learned previously are interfering with the first one being remembered currently.

​Which of the Following Is an Example of Proactive Interference

Which of the Following Is an Example of Proactive Interference