A Psychologist Asks People to Recall the Name of Their

question 172

Multiple Choice

A psychologist asks people to recall the name of their kindergarten teacher. Surprisingly, the majority of people correctly do this and comment, "Gee whiz, I haven't thought about that old bat [or old coot] in years!" Their ability to do so is a severe problem for which theory of forgetting?

• A) interference
• B) decay or disuse
• C) encoding failure
• D) retroactive interference

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