Question

We may recognize a face at a social gathering but be unable to remember how we know that person. this is an example of

a. priming.
b. the serial position effect.
c. source amnesia.
d. storage decay.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: Source amnesia

Source amnesia refers The inability to remember when or where we learned a certain information, Despite having no problem in retaining and understanding that memory. The most common cause of source amnesia is the malfunction of Explicit memory.