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proactive interference

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proactive interference [Prō‚ak·tiv ‚in·tər′fir·əns]
(psychology)
The situation in which old memories inhibit the learning of new memories.
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Proactive interference (PI) refers to a decline in recall across a series of trials that involve the same or similar to-be-remembered stimuli.
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