You are surprised by the fact that you cannot remember if abraham lincoln’s head faces the left or the right on a penny. this is all the more surprising given the fact that you work with money at your job on nearly a daily basis. what would best explain such an inability to recall this information?

encoding failure

Explanation:

When the brain is unable to create a memory link it is known as an encoding failure. Encoding refers to the ability of the brain that forms a construct of a  perceived item of use.

Here, it is given that i deal with money on a day to day basis and still I could not recall if Abraham Lincoln’s head faces the left or the right on a penny. This means that I have not formed a construct in my mind.

Hence, this situation describes encoding failure.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)