George can't remember Jack Smith's name because he wasn't paying attention when Jack was formally introduced. George's poor memory is best explained in terms of:

George can't remember Jack Smith's name because he wasn't paying attention when Jack was formally introduced. George's poor memory is best explained in terms of:






a. repression.
b. proactive interference.
c. encoding failure.
d. retroactive interference.
e. source amnesia.






Answer: C