Which Statement BEST Describes a Benefit of Transience

question 167

Multiple Choice

Which statement BEST describes a benefit of transience?

• A)It is adaptive to forget information we probably are not going to need.
• B)Only important sensory experiences are encoded into long-term memory.
• C)Modifying memories based on new information increases their utility.
• D)Transience allows us to avoid known capacity issues associated with long-term memory.

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