A student reads a chapter in her textbook without much effort or interest, then is unable to identify any of the material when it appears on a test. What is the most plausible explanation?
A) The information disappeared from the student's memory based on its physical loss.
B) The student was unable to retrieve the textbook information from LTM.
C) The information from the textbook never made its way from STM to LTM.
D) The student has fallen victim to the so-called misinformation effect.

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The information from the textbook never made its way from STM to LTM. This is an example of encoding failure, where the information was never encoded into long-term memory. The lack of effort and interest in the material likely led to shallow processing, which made it difficult to remember the information.

A Student Reads a Chapter in Her Textbook Without Much