You are taking two psychology courses this term, a course in cognition and a course in learning. Both professors are giving midterm exams tomorrow. You have just finished studying for your cognition test, and are attempting to study for the learning exam. However, you find it difficult to recall the material on learning. You are experiencing ______.

a. proactive interference
b. retroactive interference
c. the tip-of-the-tongue effect
d. encoding specificity


a. proactive interference

Psychology

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