Question

Bailey attends her 20th high school reunion and realizes that she would have great difficulty with names if people were not wearing nametags. Her inability to remember the names of people she spent so much time with 20 years earlier is MOST likely caused by:

Answer 1

Transience

Step-by-step explanation:

This refers to the state in which an individual's specific memory deteriorate with time.That is gradual fading of an individual particular memory of an event with time. it is occurs when the information an individual is trying to retrieve from the memory is impeded by another similar information. This is based on interference theory.And it can be proactive interference in which old memory impeded ability to form new memories or retroactive in which old memories are modified by the new ones, which replaced them.

Generally encoding failure forms the basis of transience. if the information is not properly stored for processing and future retrieval, or if there was lack of contact (commonalities) with the point of information it is may be difficult for the information to be retrieved. This is because the each time we repeatedly recollect an information the hippocampus ( part of the brain for memory storage) altered the particular information so that it will always be fresh memory, and easy to recollect.

Bailey loss of contact with the point of information(her colleagues ), and lack of seeing her colleagues frequently affected hippocamous alteration, leading to interference and therefore the TRANSIENCE in her memory retrieval

Answer 2

Her inability to remember the names of people she spent so much time with 20 years earlier is MOST likely caused by damage to various parts of the parietal lobe or the temporal lobe of the brain.

Step-by-step explanation:

Anomic aphasia: is a type of aphasia known by problems of recalling words, names, and numbers.