While You Are at the Movies, the Person Sitting Next

question 49

Multiple Choice

While you are at the movies, the person sitting next to you coughs so loudly that you cannot hear part of an actor's line. However, your perception is that you have heard the entire sentence, including the part masked by the cough. This is possible because of:

• A) auditory encoding
• B) the phonological loop
• C) echoic memory
• D) auditory rehearsal

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Definitions:

Organizational Structures

The system of hierarchy and arrangement within an organization defining how roles, responsibilities, and authority are distributed.

Line Structure

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