Joel is asked to provide a description of his neighbor's car after the car and the neighbor both disappear. Because he never really paid attention to the car, he finds that he really can't accurately recall the make of the car or any special details that might help in identifying it. In this case, Joel may be experiencing
A)proactive interference.
B)retrograde amnesia.
C)pseudoforgetting.
D)cryptomnesia.

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Pseudoforgetting occurs when someone believes they have forgotten something, but in reality, they never encoded the information into memory properly. Joel's inability to recall details about his neighbor's car is likely because he never really paid attention to it, indicating a failure in the encoding process rather than forgetting information that was properly encoded.

Joel Is Asked to Provide a Description of His Neighbor's