Ava, an eight-year-old child, is presented with the problem "5 + 3 + 7 = 5 + __" and asked to remember it. After the problem is taken away, Ava is given a sheet of paper and is told to write exactly what she just saw
She writes "5 + 3 + 7 + 5 = __" on the paper. Ava's behavior is likely due to a failure in ___.
a. mental imagery
b. automatization
c. encoding
d. long-term memory
C
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