When you are asked to name all seven dwarfs (from the Snow White fairy tale), you may have difficulty recalling the name of Doc because the other names come to mind more easily. When one retrieved memory blocks access to another memory, this is called
A) an encoding failure.
B) misattribution.
C) transience.
D) decay.
E) interference.

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The phenomenon described in the question is called interference, where the retrieval of one memory interferes with the retrieval of another closely related memory. In this case, the strong retrieval of the other dwarf names interferes with the retrieval of the less easily recalled name of Doc. Options A, B, C, and D do not accurately describe this phenomenon.

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