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

Multiple Choice

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:

A) prospective memory failure.
B) the misinformation effect.
C) encoding failure.
D) decay.