Discussion
When information currently being learned adversely affects the retention of information acquired previously, the phenomena is referred to as :
Answer: B
When new learning harms the retention of earlier learning, the phenomenon is retroactive interference.
The interference acts backwards in time: the later material disrupts memory for what was learned before. Proactive interference is the opposite, in which old learning interferes with the new. Distortion is a change in the content of a memory, and retrieval failure is the failure to bring a stored item to mind, so neither names the interference that is described.
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