Rita has meetings all week. She finds that, by Friday, she cannot clearly remember the meetings that she attended earlier in the week because she confuses them with the meetings she had on the last two days of the week. This illustrates:
A) proactive interference.
B) retroactive interference.
C) absentmindedness.
D) blocking.
B) retroactive interference.
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