Chris is a high school teacher
He has the same group of students for a semester and then gets a whole new group of students the next semester. He notices that after he gets the second group of students and learns their names, he has difficulty remembering the names of his last semester students when he sees them. Chris is experiencing _____
a) anterograde amnesia.
b) retroactive interference.
c) retrograde amnesia.
d) proactive interference.
Answer: b
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