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Brendan has played club soccer for several years. After spending 2 years with the same coach, a new coach was assigned to his team. Frequently during practice, Brendan would call his new coach by his old coach's name. How is this memory error best explained

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Answer:

Proactive interference

Step-by-step explanation:

The prior name is interfering with the new name, hence describing proactive interference.

(if this isn't correct, it has to be retroactive interference, but I'm pretty sure it is proactive interference)

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