You see your hairdresser at the grocery store but have difficulty in remembering her name. This retrieval failure is likely due to:

A. encoding specificity.
B. drug and alcohol use.
C. state dependent learning.
D. amnesia.
E. retrieval induced forgetting.


A. encoding specificity.

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