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Retroactive Interference

Forgetting of old information because of newly learned information.


Retroactive Interference occurs when learning something new impairs our ability to retrieve information that was learned earlier. OR The phenomenon whereby events that occur after some particular event of interest will usually cause forgetting of the original event.

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