Doumitra is telling Carrie about a movie she saw last month. She knows that Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal both star in the movie and that it involves a scary bunny rabbit, but she cannot come up with the title of the movie. According to the textbook, such difficulty in retrieving information is known as
A. spreading activation.
B. proactive inhibition.
C. the primacy effect.
D. incomplete knowledge.
Answer: D
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