Peter Is Quite Proud of the Poem He's Just Written

Multiple Choice

Peter is quite proud of the poem he's just written. "Usually I spend a lot of time writing a poem," he says, "but this one just popped into my head from out of the blue." What Peter doesn't realize is that the poem is very similar to one he read in a collection of poems by Carl Sandberg a year or so ago-so similar, in fact, that Peter might be accused of plagiarizing Sandberg's work. Peter's error can best be explained as a problem of

A) source monitoring
B) encoding specificity
C) consolidation failure
D) proactive inhibition