Shalissa has two exams today. One is in French and the other is in history. Last night she studied French before history. When she gets to her history test, all she can remember is French! Shalissa's memory is suffering from
A) cue-dependent forgetting.
B) proactive interference.
C) decay.
D) retroactive interference .
E) encoding specificity.

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Proactive interference is when previously learned information interferes with the ability to remember new information. In this case, Shalissa's French studying is interfering with her ability to remember the history information.

Shalissa Has Two Exams Today