Question

Juanita was daydreaming about her college plans during a boring lecture on the history of computers. She doesn't remember that ENIAC was the first functioning digital computer because she wasn't paying attention. Juanita's poor memory is BEST explained in terms of _____ failure.

Answer 1

The answer is encoding failure.

Step-by-step explanation:

Encoding refers to the process of transforming a message into a thought. Failure to do this results in missing memory links, thus it's impossible or very difficult to retrieve the information from our brains.

Encoding failure can occur when the brain is focused on a different task. Memory links, especially long-term, usually need complete attention to be created.