Our Visual Sensation of a Passing Automobile Would Be Initially

question 67

Multiple Choice

Our visual sensation of a passing automobile would be initially stored in ___________.

• A)the sensory registers
• B)short-term memory
• C)long-term memory
• D)the hippocampus

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Definitions:

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