Question

An elementary school class took a spelling test immediately after learning how to bake a cake. The teacher noticed that many of the students spelled the word flour instead of the vocabulary word flower. This illustrates:

Answer 1

Interference theory is a theory of forgetting that suggests that forgetting occurs because memories interfere with each other. In this case, the students’ memory of the word “flour” interfered with their memory of the word “flower” because the two words are similar in sound and spelling.

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