When information that you learned in your high school psychology class gets in the way of learning new information from your university-level psychology class,__________ has occurred.
A)transience
B)misinformation
C)interference
D)long-term blocking

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Interference occurs when previously learned information (in this case, from high school psychology class) disrupts the learning or retrieval of new information (in this case, from university-level psychology class). Transience refers to the decay of memory over time, misinformation refers to incorrect information that is learned, and long-term blocking refers to the inability to retrieve stored information.

When Information That You Learned in Your High School Psychology