Question

People who have difficulty remembering recently learned materials because of similar information learned earlier in life are demonstrating the phenomenon of:_________

Answer 1

Proactive interference

Explanation:

Proactive interference occurs when the old memories interfere with new information to restrain. Due to proactive interference, a person finds difficulties to store the new information because of the interference of old memories. It is not common phenomena but it occurs with everyone in their lifetime.

For example when you learned the name of Asian countries and after that, you might learn the name of the African country's name and you recall the names of African countries name you would probably miss the name of both Asian and African countries name.

Thus due to proactive interference, most people are not able to recall the new information because of similar information they learned before.