After meeting a new neighbor, Shandra mistakenly calls him "David" on several occasions. Eventually the neighbor kindly corrects her, saying, "My name is actually Darren." After that, Shandra correctly calls the man "Darren," but initially she has to work hard not to call him "David" instead. Which one of the following concepts best characterizes the change in Shandra's memory?
A) retrieval-induced forgetting
B) encoding specificity
C) the misinformation effect
D) an identity cue

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Retrieval-induced forgetting occurs when retrieval of certain information makes it more difficult to access related, but unwanted, information. In this case, Shandra had encoded the incorrect name "David" initially and had to actively suppress it in order to correctly retrieve the new name "Darren."

After Meeting a New Neighbor, Shandra Mistakenly Calls Him "David