Psychology / Unit 6 Psych 0691 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Proactive Interference
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The idea
Proactive interference occurs when older learning disrupts the retrieval of newer learning.
In practice
An old phone number keeps surfacing in place of the current one.
Where people slip
Interference is not decay. The newer memory is intact and losing a competition.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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