On a visit to his mother's home, Steve's mother introduced him to her new next-door neighbor. After chatting with the neighbor for a few minutes, Steve realized that he could not remember the new neighbor's name. The MOST likely explanation for Steve's forgetting the neighbor's name is:

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Encoding failure refers to the failure to process information into memory. In this case, Steve may not have paid enough attention to the neighbor's name to properly encode it into his memory, resulting in his inability to recall it later.

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