Carlos finds a friend on Facebook that he has not talked to in years. As they reminisce about things that happened 10 years ago, the information from old memories is transferred from Carlos' long-term memory into his short-term memory. This process is known as
A) storage.
B) retrieval.
C) recovering memories
D) encoding

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Retrieval is the process of bringing information from long-term memory back into short-term memory or consciousness, which is what Carlos is doing as he recalls old memories during his conversation.

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