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 refers to the process of transferring information from short-term memory to long-term memory. In this case, Steve was able to remember the neighbor's name in the short-term (while he was talking to them), but failed to encode the name into his long-term memory. Therefore, the most likely explanation for Steve's forgetting the neighbor's name is encoding failure.

On a Visit to His Mother's Home, Steve's Mother Introduced