The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve _________________?
Correct answer: D. interference
- A. encoding failure
- B. repression
- C. implicit memory loss
- D. interference
Explanation
Sleep reduces the opportunity for new experiences to compete with recently learned material, so the result supports interference as a cause of forgetting. Encoding failure occurs before the memory is formed and would not explain the sleep-versus-wake comparison as directly.
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