Your Long-Time Friend Asks You Several Questions About a Former

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Multiple Choice

Your long-time friend asks you several questions about a former classmate that you "bumped into" while on vacation.Although you talked to this old classmate for over an hour and know that she told you the name of the town in which she and her family are now living, you can't seem to retrieve the name of the town at this moment in time.This is an example of when a memory is

• A) procedural rather than semantic.
• B) temporary rather than permanent.
• C) short-term but not long-term.
• D) available but not accessible.

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