Research Shows That When People Are Presented an Irrelevant Distractor

Multiple Choice

Research shows that when people are presented an irrelevant distractor stimulus at the end of a word list they must recall, it impairs their ability to recall the last item on the list compared to a control group to whom there was no distractor stimulus.This finding is evidence for which theory of forgetting?

A) decay theory
B) interference theory
C) motivated forgetting theory
D) retrieval failure theory