The occasional memory failures of older adults to recall recently learned information can be best explained in terms of the greater difficulty older people have with

A) automatic processing.
B) repression.
C) sensory memory.
D) retrieval.

The occasional memory failures of older adults to recall recently learned information can be best explained by the difficulty older people have with retrieval, or accessing information that has been stored in long-term memory. While older adults may experience some decline in sensory memory and automatic processing, these processes are not necessarily related to the specific type of memory failure described in the question. Repression, or the unconscious blocking of memories, is not a commonly accepted explanation for age-related memory decline.