You are driving down the street when you see a billboard displaying a phone number for a service you need. You keep repeating the number so you won't forget it until you get home, where you can write it down. You do this to prevent the process of ____ from causing you to forget the number.?
a. ?decay
b. ?construction
c. ?deductive inhibition
d. ?proactive inhibition
ANSWER:
a
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