Someone Asks You What Time It Is

question 159

Multiple Choice

Someone asks you what time it is. You check your watch and answer. A few seconds later, after you have been distracted, someone asks what time you said it was. You have forgotten. According to the traditional information-processing view, what type of memory was this?

• A) procedural
• B) short-term
• C) long-term
• D) semantic

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