Wickens (1970) found that the continuing to study items from the same conceptual category (e.g. vehicles, furniture) would interfere with information in short-term memory over time, an effect known as ______.
a. cross-conceptual integration
b. semantic dampening
c. proactive inhibition
d. repeated testing
Ans: C
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