"I could have sworn that I parked my Subaru in this row," Jenna said with embarrassment as the airport parking van driver drove down yet another row of parked cars. "It's okay, miss," the van driver reassured her, then added, "This happens all the time when people are rushing to catch a plane and they don't pay attention to the row signs." This is an everyday example of _____ due to _____.
A)absentmindedness; encoding failure
B)suppression; interference
C)absentmindedness; repression
D)a déjà vu experience; inattentional blindness

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This is an example of absentmindedness, which refers to the failure to pay attention to details or to fully encode them into memory. In this case, Jenna did not pay attention to the row sign when she parked her car and therefore, failed to encode it fully into her memory, leading to difficulty in finding her car later on.

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