You may be able to repeat a series of words that you thought you did not hear because:
A) the words are stored in echoic memory
B) you did not initially pay attention to the words that had been moved to working memory
C) stimuli often enter long-term memory without our conscious effort
D) of cross-modal memory

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Echoic memory refers to the sensory memory system for auditory information. It is the brief period of time that auditory information (i.e. sound) is retained in memory after the initial presentation of the stimulus. This memory system allows us to repeat back a series of words that we thought we did not hear because the words are still "echoing" in our memory system.

You May Be Able to Repeat a Series of Words