Question

Imagine a basketball player who played over 60 games over the course of his high school career. Imagine someone asks the basketball player, "Remember that game at Murchison High School, where you won the game in the last second with a free throw? What was the name of that star player on the other team?" However, the basketball player has trouble retrieving the answer to the question because the game was actually played at Big Rock High School (not Murchison, as the person stated). This best illustrates which theory of forgetting?

Answer 1

Answer: Encoding-retrieval mismatch

Explanation:

Encoding-retrieval mismatch refers to the failure to remember something based on the difficulty to identify the context of its initial encoding. We store information by encoding it in our memory. We file information connected with its context, which will later allow memory retrieval. In this case, the context provided made it impossible for the basketball player to remember the actual game.