Comparison of free-recall and cued-recall performance suggests that most memory failures are due to:

a. information no longer being in memory due to decay
b. a failure to use an appropriate retrieval cue
c. information no longer being in memory due to interference
d. repression of the information so that it cannot be brought to consciousness


B

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