Suppose you are accustomed to driving a car in which the switch for the windshield wipers is located to the left of the steering wheel. Then you borrow a friend's car. To use the wipers on this car, you must activate the switch to the right of the steering wheel, but you keep reaching toward the left. You are demonstrating

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Proactive interference occurs when old information interferes with the ability to learn or remember new information. In this scenario, your habit of reaching to the left for the windshield wipers (old information) interferes with your ability to remember or adapt to the new location of the switch in your friend's car.

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