As Jake gets to class, he realizes that he did not study for the quiz today.He quickly scans the information in the Chapter but makes an "F" on the quiz.Jake's quick scan of the Chapter failed to store sufficient information to form a useful memory to use in taking the quiz, a type of forgetting known as
A) proactive interference.
B) retroactive interference.
C) cue-dependent forgetting.
D) encoding failure.

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Jake's failure to remember the information can be attributed to encoding failure, as he did not properly encode the information in his memory through study or rehearsal.

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