Bill tries to think back to his grade school play and remember the songs that they sang. However, he has trouble recalling the songs because those memories have faded with time. This kind of forgetting is called
A. retroactive inhibition.
B. decay.
C. the feeling-of-knowing experience.
D. anterograde amnesia.
Answer: B
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