A conscious memory of the name of the first president of the United States is a(n) ________ memory.

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Explicit memory, also known as declarative memory, is the type of memory that involves conscious recollection of information, such as facts or events. The name of the first president of the United States is an example of explicit memory. Iconic memory refers to a very brief and fleeting sensory memory of visual stimuli, procedural memory involves knowing how to do things or perform skills, and state-dependent memory refers to the phenomenon of better memory retrieval when a person's internal state at the time of encoding and retrieval are the same.

A Conscious Memory of the Name of the First President