Suppose That You Are Calculating Your Recent Expenses, and You

question 21

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are calculating your recent expenses, and you are adding up five 2-digit numbers in your head. As you begin to calculate the final sum, you feel that you've reached the limits of your memory. This strain can be traced to

• A) the difficulty of keeping all this material in your working memory.
• B) the difficulty of transferring material from working memory to long-term memory.
• C) a conflict between top-down and bottom-up processing.
• D) material that is larger than the span of sensory memory.

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