When you momentarily forget a friend's name, the function of memory that has failed is ____.
A) storage
B) reproduction
C) retrieval
D) encoding

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Retrieval is the process of accessing stored information from memory. Forgetting a friend's name means that you are unable to retrieve that information from your memory at a specific moment, but it does not mean that the storage, reproduction or encoding functions of memory have necessarily failed.

When You Momentarily Forget a Friend's Name, the Function of Memory