Which of the Following Is Probably the MOST Plausible Explanation

question 71

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is probably the MOST plausible explanation of source misattribution?

• A) Even initially, we fail to encode the source of the information we learn.
• B) Long-term memory is more likely to code the meaning than the source of the information we learn.
• C) We don't have the working memory capacity to process not only the information we learn, but also its source.
• D) Memory for the source of the information we learn decays more quickly memory than does the information itself.

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