Jerry Is at a Party

question 95

Multiple Choice

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 is most likely the source of Jerry's difficulty?

• A)Jerry failed to encode the woman's name.
• B)Jerry's working memory capacity was exceeded by the number of people he met.
• C)Jerry experienced interference in retrieving the woman's name.
• D)Jerry failed to rehearse the woman's name sufficiently.

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