We Are Unable to Consciously Attend to Most of the Sights

question 138

Multiple Choice

We are unable to consciously attend to most of the sights and sounds that are continually bombarding us.This fact most clearly contributes to

• A) storage decay.
• B) retroactive interference.
• C) encoding failure.
• D) repression.

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