Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Proactive interference refers to situations in which earlier learning impairs memory for information acquired later
2. Taj recently changed the password to his e-mail account; now he cannot remember his old password, illustrating the effects of proactive interference
3. Absentmindedness is most often due to divided attention
4. Divided attention is associated with an increase in lower-left frontal lobe activity
5. Divided attention results in decreased hippocampal activity during encoding


1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE

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