An Encoding Failure Occurs When

question 5

Multiple Choice

An encoding failure occurs when

• A)information was never entered into long-term memory.
• B)newly learned information interferes with preexisting knowledge.
• C)preexisting knowledge interferes with newly learned information.
• D)the number of neural connections decreases over time.

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