As Tim Is Doing His Homework While on the Phone

question 4

Multiple Choice

As Tim is doing his homework while on the phone with his friend Sue, his pencil snaps and he gets up to get a new one in the basement, where his family keeps all the school supplies. When he gets down to the basement he forgets why he came down. What probably happened?

• A)memory misattribution
• B)absentmindedness
• C)blocking
• D)retrieval-induced forgetting

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