After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Adam cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember his life experiences before the accident. Adam's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:
a. repression.
b. retroactive interference.
c. encoding failure.
d. source amnesia.
Ans: c. encoding failure.
Psychology
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