Suppose That You Are Calculating Your Recent Expenses, and You

question 40

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are calculating your recent expenses, and you are adding up five 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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Sub-

A prefix indicating beneath, under, or a lower rank or status.

Poly-

A prefix meaning "many" or "multiple," used in various scientific and technical contexts to denote multiplicity.

Blast

A powerful explosion or a strong gust of wind or air.

Cidal

Used as a suffix in pharmacology and microbiology to indicate substances or actions that kill (e.g., bactericidal, which means capable of killing bacteria).