In the classic experiment in which two groups of students studied lists of words with one group staying awake before the testing and the other group sleeping, the students who slept after studying the list remembered more because which of the following was held to a minimum?
A)proactive interference
B)disinhibition
C)retrograde amnesia
D)retroactive interference

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Sleeping minimizes retroactive interference, which occurs when newly learned information interferes with the recall of previously learned information. By sleeping, the students avoided new information that could interfere with their memory of the word list.

In the Classic Experiment in Which Two Groups of Students