Shalissa has two exams today. One is in French and the other is in history. Last night she studied French before history. When she gets to her history test, all she can remember is French! Shalissa's memory is suffering from

a. cue-dependent forgetting.
b. proactive interference.
c. decay.
d. retroactive interference .
e. encoding specificity.


b. proactive interference.

Psychology

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Fill in the blank with correct word

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Psychology