Jerry is at a party. He is introduced to three different people in the span of a moment. Later, he is approached by the first person he met and cannot remember her name. Which of the following has Jerry experienced?
A) a memory trace
B) a failure of acquisition
C) memory encoding
D) motivated forgetting

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Jerry has experienced a failure of acquisition, which means he was unable to properly acquire and store the information (the person's name) in his memory.

Jerry Is at a Party