Question

Encoding failure is likely due to _____. a problem with stm a failure of sensory memory momentary inaccessibility deciding the information wasn't important enough to transfer to ltm

Answer 1

This was likely due to the information not being seen as important enough to store in long-term memory (choice D). The information was seen in a cursory manner, but was not properly perceived and encoded in a way that would store it for later retrieval, which leads to errors in memory when the person attempts to retrieve the information at a later time.