Anna has two children who just started attending school. After learning the names of her daughter's teachers, she had difficulty learning the names of her son's teachers. Anna's difficulty learning the second list of teachers is likely due to

A. interference.
B. motivated forgetting.
C. long-term potentiation.
D. priming.


Answer: A

Psychology

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