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Alan took three years of French in high school before switching to studying German in college. He has noticed that he has forgotten a lot of his French vocabulary. His forgetting of French is most likely
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Alan took three years of French in high school before switching to studying German in college. He has noticed that he has forgotten a lot of his French vocabulary. His forgetting of French is most likely the result of

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His forgetting of French is most likely the result of retroactive interference.

Retroactive interference is when more recent information interferes with the recollection of older information.

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