Imagine that the first car you learned to drive was a manual transmission with a clutch, but the car you drive now is an automatic. Sometimes you find yourself reaching for the clutch that is no longer there. This example illustrates ________.
A) retroactive interference
B) proactive interference
C) retrograde amnesia
D) anterograde amnesia

Question

Imagine that the first car you learned to drive was a manual transmission with a clutch, but the car you drive now is an automatic. Sometimes you find yourself reaching for the clutch that is no longer there. This example illustrates ________.
A) retroactive interference 
B) proactive interference 
C) retrograde amnesia
D) anterograde amnesia

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Proactive interference is when previously learned information interferes with the retention of new information. In this case, the previous knowledge of driving a manual car with a clutch is interfering with the retrieval of the new information that the current car is an automatic.

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