A Psychologist Asks People to Recall the Name of Their

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 tends to conflict with which theory of forgetting?

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