Samantha learns French one semester, and then takes a Spanish class the next semester. When Samantha tries to remember how to say something in French, she can only think of the Spanish vocabulary she learned. This is an example of which of the following?

a. retroactive interference
b. proactive interference
c. decay
d. categorical clustering


A

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