Imagine that you've just moved to a new town, and you are trying to find your way to work for the second time. Along the way, you make a couple of wrong turns and then miss your exit. Two weeks later, your ability to get to work no longer requires much conscious thought. What functional process of memory is taking place here?

Answer is Consolidation.

Explanation:

Memory consolidation can be explained  as a situation whereby the temporary memory is changed or transformed to a long lasting form. This means that, the synaptic consolidation which happen for a few hours changed or moved to a stable stage which is known as the system consolidation.

In this case, the memory temporary memory when missing the way to work is synaptic consolidation , while it was transformed to system consolidation after two weeks. At this time , you have developed a stable memory that helped to know the way to work without much conscious thought or effort.