A person who drove a manual-transmission carfor years finds that, when driving a car with anautomatic transmission, he often lifts his foot tostep on the clutch. This driver is experiencing (A) parallel distributed processing (B) an articulatory loop

Correct/Complet question:

A person who drove a manual-transmission car for years finds out that when driving a car with an automatic transmission, he often lifts his foot to step on the clutch. This driver is experiencing

A. parallel distributed processing

B. an articulatory loop

C. positive transfer

D. proactive interference

E. retroactive interference

Answer:

D, proactive interference.

Explanation:

Proactive interference is the interference of things that have previously been learnt with new learning situations.

Simply put, proactive interference is a situation in which things from the past that one has learnt creeps up occasionally or frequently in new and present situation.

In the case of the above question, the driver keeps raising his foot to step on the clutch which isn't in an automatic transmission vehicle. This is as a result of his past experience with manual transmission vehicle wherein he had to raise his foot from time to time to shift transmission gear.

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