A your high school reunion you cannot remember the last name of your class teacher. Your failure to remember is most likely the result of __________________?
Correct answer: C. retrieval failure
- A. encoding failure
- B. storage failure
- C. retrieval failure
- D. state-dependent memory
Explanation
If the teacher's name was learned but cannot currently be accessed, the problem is retrieval failure. Encoding failure would mean the name was never effectively stored in the first place.
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