Polly gets a piece of dust in her eye but is still able to drive,despite having to blink a lot.Her ability to maintain a visual image of the road is due to:
A) short-term memory
B) iconic memory
C) semantic memory
D) eidetic memory

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Iconic memory is the visual sensory memory that allows us to maintain a brief visual image of a scene even after the stimulus has been removed. In this case, Polly can still maintain a visual image of the road even though she is blinking frequently due to the dust in her eye. Short-term memory refers to the limited capacity memory system that temporarily holds information, but it is not specific to visual information. Semantic memory refers to our long-term memory for general knowledge about the world, and eidetic memory (or photographic memory) is a rare ability to remember images with extraordinary accuracy and detail.

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