Daris, a marathon runner, is trying diligently to read his textbook, but he keeps finding himself preoccupied with his upcoming race. He is frustrated because he has had to go back and reread sections the textbook in order to really understand the material. Daris seems to be having difficulty with _____
a) retrieval.
b) the positive bias of memory.
c) encoding.
d) reconstruction.
Ans: c) encoding.
Psychology
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