A mad scientist plots to take over the world.His plan is to make our visual perception of the world appear to be very jerky and full of darting,discontinuous movements.He has perfected a ray gun that can destroy anything in the world.As his trusted advisor,what do you suggest he destroy to achieve his dastardly objective?
A) iconic memory
B) echoic memory
C) semantic memory
D) eidetic memory

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Iconic memory is the visual sensory memory that briefly holds a mental image of what we see. If this memory is destroyed, our ability to perceive and process visual information would be severely disrupted, causing our visual perception to become jerky and full of darting, discontinuous movements. Destroying other types of memory, such as echoic memory (auditory sensory memory), semantic memory (knowledge about the world), or eidetic memory (photographic memory) would not have the same effect on visual perception.

A Mad Scientist Plots to Take Over the World