Arnold was not paying attention to his professor's lecture.But when the professor asked him what she had just said,he was surprised that he had a fleeting memory of her last few words.Arnold's experience best illustrates ________ memory.
A) procedural
B) echoic
C) implicit
D) iconic

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Echoic memory refers to the brief sensory memory of auditory stimuli (sound/words). In this case, Arnold's ability to recall the professor's last few words suggests that he had briefly encoded them in his echoic memory, despite not actively paying attention to the lecture.

Arnold Was Not Paying Attention to His Professor's Lecture