James worked for three years for a company in which the supervisors constantly criticized the employees, promoted their friends, and unfairly set work schedules. It has now been seven years since James worked for this company, and he cannot seem to remember the names of the people he worked with or even the details of the unfair treatment he received. James' forgetting is most likely due to

a. memory decay.
b. disuse.
c. redintegration.
d. repression.


D

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