Question

Attending a party one night with some friends, Cheyenne is introduced to some new people. As she is standing around talking, she realizes that she cannot remember any of the new people's names. This is likely the result of having never processed the names to begin with, which is also known as "_____ failure."

Answer 1

Answer: encoding

Explanation:

Encoding Failure is the sporadic incapacity of creating a memory connection. Encoding refers to the capability of storing and remembering situations and data, both in the short or long-term.

Forgetting something because of an encoding failure suggests that we didn´t store that information into long-term memory.