You just recently bought a new cell phone and had to change your phone number. However, your old phone number keeps interfering with your ability to remember your new phone number. This is an example of _____.

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Proactive interference occurs when old information interferes with the ability to learn or recall new information. In this case, the old phone number is interfering with the recall of the new phone number.

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