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Sam recently moved to a new city and has had to learn many new telephone numbers. Now he has difficulty remembering the numbers of his old friends in his former location. Forgetting is most likely due to

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maybe amnesia bc if he’s forgetting he could have either early onset alzheimers or amnesia
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Answer:

encoding failure

Step-by-step explanation:

As in the question it is mentioned that Sam moved to a new city due to which he feels difficult to remember his old friend number. Now according to the tulving encoding principle, the retrieval would be successful the cue must be similar at the time of encoding

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