If you see a bolt of lightning flash across the sky, you will have a visual memory of that stimulus for a brief second after it occurs. This sort of memory is called __________, which refers to our visual sensory memory

a. photographic
b. eidetic
c. echoic
d. iconic


Answer: D

Psychology

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