Question

Lisa puts five quarters into the parking meter every time she goes downtown. However, when asked, Lisa cannot say if Washington's head on a quarter is facing left or right. This may be an example of ________, because Lisa never paid attention to that picture in the first place.

Answer 1

Answer:

encoding failure

Explanation:

Encoding failure:-

• It refers to the stance when the brain in the body gets failed sometimes or occasionally to create a particular or circumstantial memory link which may have occurred in the past.
• Conversely, encoding refers to the ability of the brain to recall as well as store informations and events which can be short term or long term.
• In encoding failure, this kind of ability of the brain fails which can be due to a number of reasons.

In the given question, Lisa being forgetting the position of the Washington's head is an example of encoding failure.