Many people cannot say whether the doorknob is on the left or right side of their front door. This is most likely due to
A)proactive interference.
B)retroactive interference.
C)retrograde amnesia.
D)encoding failure.
E)the serial position effect.

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This phenomenon is most likely due to encoding failure, which occurs when the brain fails to create a memorable path for the information, meaning the detail about which side the doorknob is on was never properly encoded into memory because it was deemed unimportant.

Many People Cannot Say Whether the Doorknob Is on the Left