Interference may cause you to have trouble remembering

• proactive interference (because of the term retroactive interference)
• retroactive interference (because of the term proactive interference)
• short term memory (proactive interference: because people, in ordinary language, use the term differently than psychologists do)
• short term memory (proactive interference from learning "sensory memory" first)
• sensory memory (retroactive interference from learning "short term memory" later)
• anterograde amnesia (proactive interference from already knowing about classical retrograde amnesia)
• ego (as Freudian psychologists use the term) because the term is used differently in everyday language
• the differences between conditioned response, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, and unconditioned stimulus

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