If you are unable to remember the name of your second grade teacher because you haven't thought of her in a while, you are demonstrating
A) the serial position effect.
B) transience.
C) misattribution.
D) absent-mindedness.
E) encoding specificity.

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Transience refers to the decay of memories over time. In this case, the person has not thought of their second grade teacher in a while, so their memory of her name has decayed or weakened. The other answer choices do not apply to this situation.

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