Amber took 4 years of Spanish in high school and 2 years of Spanish in college. Nevertheless, only a year after she graduated from college she realizes that she remembers very little of the Spanish language, illustrating:

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Norah

25 March, 23:22

Amber took 4 years of Spanish in high school and 2 years of Spanish in college. Nevertheless, only a year after she graduated from college she realizes that she remembers very little of the Spanish language, illustrating:

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Gretchen Murphy · Answer 1

a. transience.

Explanation:

The options for this question are missing. The options are:

A. transience.

B. absentmindedness.

C. retroactive interference.

D. proactive interference.

In psychology, the term transience refers to the decreasing ability to retrieve something that we already learned either from our long-term-memory or short-term-memory. This can happen because of brain damage but also because of lack of practice.

In this example, Amber took 4 years of Spanish and then 2 years of spanish in college but one year after she graduates she realizes that she remembers very little of the Spanish language. We can see that her ability to retrieve what she learned decreased over that year, therefore this would illustrate the concept of transience.