The theories of forgetting described in the text may be likened to the difficulties people might face in trying to find an old file on the computer.Which theory is correctly likened to a corresponding file-finding difficulty?
A) decay - the desired file was never saved in the first place
B) interference - there are so many files crowding the hard drive that one can't find the desired file
C) encoding failure - the desired file is so old that it has become corrupted and irretrievable
D) priming - the file was saved in an inaccessible location
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