On a TV game show, you are asked which way Lincoln's head faces on a penny You are unable to answer correctly, and you lose a large prize. Your memory failure is most likely a result of
a. the serial position effect.
b. repression.
c. encoding failure.
d. priming.
ANSWER: c
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