What Is a Veto

question 26

Multiple Choice

What is a veto?

• A) A decision by an executive to approve passage of a bill
• B) A decision by an executive to reject passage of a bill
• C) A rejection of the passage of a bill by a proportion of senators
• D) A passing of a bill by popular referendum

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Definitions:

Short-term Memory

A temporary storage system in the brain for holding a small amount of information readily available for a short period of time.

Iconic Memory

A type of visual sensory memory that retains information for a very brief period, often described as the afterimage left by a visual stimulus.

Primacy Effect

A cognitive bias that results in the enhanced recall of items or information presented at the beginning of a list or sequence.

Recency Effect

The tendency to remember the most recently presented information best when recalling a list of items.