Jerry Is at a Party

Multiple Choice

Jerry is at a party. He is introduced to three different people in the span of a moment. Later, he is approached by the first person he met and cannot remember her name. Which explanation is MOST likely the source of Jerry's difficulty?

A) Jerry failed to encode the woman's name.
B) Jerry's working memory capacity was exceeded by the number of people he met.
C) Jerry experienced interference in retrieving the woman's name.
D) Jerry failed to rehearse the woman's name sufficiently.