Bahrick and collegues tested nearly 400 high school alumni for their ability to recognize classmates and recall their names using their high school yearbooks. They found the rate of recognition to have ______.
a. dropped over the following decades
b. dropped as per the power law of forgetting
c. dropped initially and then stabilized
d. remained high for over 30 years
Ans: D
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