Question

Chris is a high school teacher. He has the same group of students for a semester and then gets a whole new group of students the next semester. He notices that after he gets the second group of students and learns their names, he has difficulty remembering the names of his last semester students when he sees them. Chris is experiencing _______.

A) anterograde amnesia
B) retroactive interference
C) retrogade amnesia
D) proactive interference
E) anterograde interference

Answer 1

B. Retroactive interference

Step-by-step explanation:

Retroactive interference can be referred to as a condition in learning whereby there is an interference between new learning/knowledge and old knowledge. For example an actor while learning a script for a play, might forget previously learnt script. Learning a new task would make a person to forget what he has learnt previously.

Relating this to this question,Chris forgets the names of his students in the previous semester after he has learnt the names of his students in the new semester.