When you listen to a conversation or song on the radio, or watch a television show, you are using ________ to hold onto and think about new information coming in from the sensory registers.
A) shadow memory
B) long-term memory
C) memory icons
D) short-term memory

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Short-term memory, also known as working memory, is responsible for holding onto and processing new information from the sensory registers before either discarding it or encoding it into long-term memory.

When You Listen to a Conversation or Song on the Radio