Patricia often brings up the concept of transience in court to discredit the memory of an eyewitness.This concept refers to _________ and is a memory sin of _________.

A) failure to retrieve an item from memory; commission
B) the simple decay of memory over time; commission
C) failure to retrieve an item from memory; omission
D) the simple decay of memory over time; omission

Transience

The state or condition of being temporary or short-lived.

Memory Sin

A term referring to the various kinds of inaccuracies or errors that human memory is prone to, such as transience, absent-mindedness, misattribution, and suggestibility, among others.

Decay

In the context of science, it often refers to the process by which organic substances break down into simpler forms of matter; in physics, it can refer to the decrease in number or function of particles over time.