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After switching dorm rooms and getting a new phone number, samantha found that it was harder to remember her previous dorm room's phone number. samantha was experiencing _____.

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Samantha was experiencing retroactive interference or RI. It is a phenomenon that happens when recently learned data meddles with and obstructs the review of beforehand learned data. Impedance is a clarification for overlooking in long haul memory. The essential hypothesis expresses that obstruction happens when data that is comparative in organize impedes the data that somebody is endeavoring to review. There are two sorts of impedance; retroactive and proactive.
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