If knowing the names of your current teachers makes it difficult to remember the names of your teachers from last year, you are experiencing

a. retroactive interference.
b. proactive interference.
c. misattribution.
d. suggestibility.
e. transience.

a. retroactive interference.

Psychology

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Eva just upgraded her software package. However, even though the updated version contains a number of more efficient methods for working with files, Eva continues to work with files the way she did before the upgrade. In this case, Eva is showing evidence of

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Psychology