Thalia studied for her midterm and when her roommate quizzed her, she gave correct answers to all sorts of questions. The day of the midterm, however, Thalia was unable to provide answers to questions that she had answered the night before. What can you conclude from this memory failure?

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Thalia's memory failure suggests that she successfully encoded and stored the information, but was unable to retrieve it when needed. This is a classic example of retrieval failure, a common memory error where information is simply inaccessible or temporarily unavailable, but not permanently lost.

Thalia Studied for Her Midterm and When Her Roommate Quizzed