Nancy was daydreaming about her college plans during a boring lecture on the history of computers.She doesn't remember that ENIAC was the first functioning digital computer because she wasn't paying attention.Nancy's poor memory is best explained in terms of
A) interference.
B) encoding failure.
C) storage decay.
D) source amnesia.

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Encoding failure occurs when we don't pay attention to something and therefore don't create a proper memory representation of it. This is consistent with Nancy's situation of daydreaming during the lecture and not remembering the information presented.

Nancy Was Daydreaming About Her College Plans During a Boring