If you take a large lecture class,you probably see the same people every day in class,but you would have a difficult time recognizing all of them.Because most of these people are unimportant to you,you do not process their faces in a meaningful way.In this way,you forget their faces as a result of:

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Encoding failure occurs when information does not get encoded into long-term memory, which can result in forgetting. In this case, the faces of the classmates are not processed in a meaningful way because they are unimportant, leading to encoding failure and difficulty in recognizing them. Decay refers to the fading of memories over time, interference refers to the disruption of memory retrieval by competing memories, and motivated forgetting involves intentionally forgetting information. None of these options are applicable in this situation.

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