Consider this sentence: "Sean was able to get the dog to come out from under the abandoned house by shaking a bag of dog food." In order for you to consciously make sense of the sentence, the information was processed in your _____ memory.
A)auditory sensory
B)short-term
C)visual sensory
D)long-term

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The sentence includes specific information about an event that occurred in the past, so it requires conscious processing, which is primarily carried out in short-term memory. The sensory memories (auditory and visual) are responsible for momentarily holding sensory information. Long-term memory generally stores information that has been previously processed and is available for later retrieval.

Consider This Sentence: "Sean Was Able to Get the Dog