An entrepreneur will be making a speech to business and government leaders in the community in fifteen minutes. Although this is a very important speech,the entrepreneur is calm and confident. S/he is relying on many speeches delivered successfully in the past. The success in past speeches includes remembering to address the people at the head table,when and how to advance the PowerPoint presentation slides,to repeat a question from the audience so that all can hear it,etc. The entrepreneur is relying on
A) social intelligence.
B) correct rejection.
C) procedural memory.
D) confirmation bias.
E) planning fallacy.

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The entrepreneur's calm and confident approach is due to procedural memory. Procedural memory is a type of long-term memory that aids in the performance of particular types of tasks without conscious awareness of these previous experiences. The entrepreneur's successful past speeches have been stored as procedural memory, so s/he can draw upon them and perform well in the current speech.

An Entrepreneur Will Be Making a Speech to Business and Government