Sally tells a joke to her friend Helen. Helen smiles and responds, "I told you that joke yesterday!" Sally's embarrassment is due to her failure in
A) source memory.
B) the reminiscence bump.
C) prospective memory.
D) short-term memory.

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Sally's embarrassment is due to her failure in source memory, which refers to the ability to remember where and how information was acquired. Sally did not remember that Helen had told her the joke before, suggesting a failure in source memory. The reminiscence bump refers to the phenomenon where adults have better memory for events that occurred between the ages of 10 and 30. Prospective memory refers to the ability to remember to do things in the future, while short-term memory refers to the ability to hold and manipulate information in the mind for a short period of time.

Sally Tells a Joke to Her Friend Helen