There are lots of books on your bookshelves, but you aren't making use of them right now; those you are making use of are out on your desk. Because books on your bookshelves contain information you are not accessing right now, but may need later, those books are in fact very similar to the kind of information held in __________.
A) long-term memory
B) short-term memory
C) the unconscious
D) sensory register

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Long-term memory stores information that is not currently being used but may be needed later, similar to the books on the bookshelves. Short-term memory holds information currently being used, the unconscious contains hidden memories and processes, and sensory register holds sensory information from the environment for a brief period before being either forgotten or transferred to short-term or long-term memory.

There Are Lots of Books on Your Bookshelves, but You