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1
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What is proactive interference?

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Past learning interfering with current attempts to learn something

2
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What is retroactive interference?

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Current attempts to learn something interfering with past learning

3
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What are the strengths of interference?

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  1. Real world application to advertising

2. Individual differences

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What are the weaknesses of interference?

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  1. Research is quite artificial
  2. Interference only explains some situations for forgetting
  3. Accessibility versus availability
5
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What is interference?

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An explanation for forgetting in terms of one memory disrupting the ability to recall another. This is most likely to occur when the two memories have some similarity