Mark attends his 20th high school reunion and is surprised to learn that his friend Lamar can remember the score of their final football game, but he cannot. He assumed that enough time had passed that everyone would have forgotten this information. Is Mark correct in this assumption?
A. No, because many individual factors influence who forgets what information from memory.
B. Yes, Lamar only remembers because he is one year younger than Mark and will lose this information the following year.
C. No, because time does not affect which information decays, only whether or not it was important to the individual.
D. Yes, because decay happens to all memories but there is some individual variation in when it occurs.
Answer: A
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