Passively reading your textbook without paying too much attention to it rather than actively focusing on the new material is apt to lead to __________

a) proactive interference
b) decay
c) retrieval failure
d) encoding failure


ANS: D, Research finds that active processing of information leads to more adequate encoding, and reduces encoding failures. Passive learning, however, does not!

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