Pujols Is Watching His Favorite Baseball Player in a Home

question 206

Multiple Choice

Pujols is watching his favorite baseball player in a home run derby and is trying to remember all of the movements that this player makes before he hits a long ball so that he can also become a big league player himself. Which of the following would best represent the consolidation stage of this process?

• A) The attention that he is paying to each movement
• B) His organizing the player's swing into a series of memories for sequential motions that can be stored in long-term memory
• C) Holding of the information in long-term store
• D) His retrieval of past episodes of home runs hit by this player

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