We are unable to consciously attend to most of the sights and sounds that are continually bombarding us.This fact most clearly contributes to
A) storage decay.
B) retroactive interference.
C) encoding failure.
D) repression.

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The fact that we are unable to consciously attend to most of the sights and sounds that are continually bombarding us suggests that we may experience encoding failure, since we are not adequately processing this information for storage in our memory. This is different from storage decay, which refers to the weakening or fading of memories that have already been stored, retroactive interference, which occurs when new memories interfere with the retrieval of older memories, or repression, which is a controversial psychoanalytic concept that suggests that people may unconsciously push traumatic memories or desires out of conscious awareness.

We Are Unable to Consciously Attend to Most of the Sights