Question

At a loud party, Maggie met so many new people that when she ran into one of her new acquaintances on campus the next day, she was unable to remember the person's name. The MOST likely explanation for her forgetting the name of her new acquaintance is called _____.

Answer 1

Interference

Explanation:

Interference is a type of theory that explains why there is an occurrence of interference in long term memory. It is a procedure where some memories interference with the retention of another memory. Interference occurs when there is some memory stop to recall another memory of the same material. The memory than does the competition and try to come in memories but sometimes forgotten. This has happened because some of the long term memory does not retrieve the short term memory. This is an interesting topic for many psychologists that why forgetting does occur.

There is two types of interference :

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference