Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam, there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major parts of a theory. Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth, but time is up. As Janie is walking down the stairs, all of a sudden, she remembers the fifth point, but it is too late. Janie had a problem with

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Janie had previously encoded and stored the information, but she had difficulty retrieving the fifth point when she needed it. This is an example of retrieval failure.

Janie Is Taking an Exam in Her History Class