Dr. Rogers meets one of his students at a local shopping mall and he cannot recall her name. However, when he sees her in class the next Monday morning, he immediately recalls that her name is Juanita. Which theory of forgetting best explains Dr. Roger's memory lapse?

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Cue-dependent forgetting, sometimes known as retrieval failure, occurs when there is a lack of retrieval cues that can trigger the memory. In this case, seeing Juanita in a different context (the shopping mall) may have created a retrieval cue that was not present in the classroom setting, leading to forgetting until that cue was present again.

Dr Rogers Meets One of His Students at a Local