Brittany is daydreaming in class when her instructor asks her a question. Brittany finds that, even though she was not paying attention, she can replay in her "mind's ear" the instructor's last words, taking advantage of a process called:

A) auditory memory.
B) visual imagery encoding.
C) iconic memory.
D) echoic memory.


D) echoic memory.

Psychology

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