Absent-mindedness in a college student would typically involve
a. trying to study while watching television.
b. a failure to encode a stimulus event.
c. a failure to connect new input to previously stored information.
d. a failure of iconic memory.
e. an old memory making it difficult to recall a newer one.
a. trying to study while watching television.
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