Which of the following occurs when someone's short-term memory is filled to capacity?
a) They simply squeeze more information in.
b) Displacement can occur at that point.
c) The person actively decides to save some items and then sends the remaining items back to sensory memory for reprocessing.
d) All of the information is automatically moved into the long-term memory store.
Answer: b
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