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Sumit is asked to repeat what his mother just told him. He says he "forgot' but in reality Sumit was not paying attention to his mother at all. This is an example of the ............. explanation of forgetting.
Answer: C
This is the encoding failure explanation of forgetting.
Information that is never attended to is never encoded into long-term memory, so it cannot be retrieved later. Sumit was not paying attention to his mother, so her words never entered memory; what looks like forgetting is really a failure to store them in the first place.
Interference is forgetting caused by other learning that competes with the memory. Memory trace (decay) theory says stored traces fade with time. Repression is motivated forgetting of threatening material. All three assume the memory was stored and later lost, which is not the case here.
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