Your female friend recently got married and changed her last name to that of her husband. Which of the following will make it difficult for you to remember her new last name?

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Proactive interference is when previously learned information interferes with the ability to remember new information. In this case, if you have known your friend by her maiden name for a long time, it may be difficult to remember her new last name due to proactive interference. Retroactive interference would be if learning something new interferes with remembering something old, which is not the case here. Source monitoring and reality monitoring are not relevant to this situation.

Your Female Friend Recently Got Married and Changed Her Last