A "one-hit-wonder" song popular 5 years ago comes on the radio. "I used to love this song!" Clyde exclaims. "Who sang it?" "Oh! I know! It's . . . it's . . . Darn! It's on the tip of my tongue!" Ralph responds. Ralph is experiencing a failure of the memory process called:
A)encoding.
B)transfer.
C)storage.
D)retrieval.

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Ralph is experiencing retrieval failure, as he is unable to retrieve the name of the artist despite having previously encoded and stored the memory.

A "One-Hit-Wonder" Song Popular 5 Years Ago Comes on the Radio