If you take a large lecture class, you would probably see the same students every day in class, but you would have a difficult time recognizing all of them. Because most of these students are unimportant to you, you do not process their faces in a meaningful way, forgetting their faces as a result of ____________.
A)encoding failure
B)decay
C)interference
D)motivated forgetting

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Encoding failure occurs when the brain does not create a strong memory of an event or person because it was deemed unimportant at the time of encoding. In this scenario, since the students are not considered important, their faces are not processed meaningfully, leading to a failure in encoding their faces into memory.

If You Take a Large Lecture Class, You Would Probably