Suppose that you are to give a presentation for one of your classes. As you drive to school you practise your presentation in your head. You arrive and your friend asks you about the traffic on your way. You find that you do not really remember the drive at all, despite arriving safely.
-What process allowed you to complete the drive?

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Implicit memory refers to unconscious memories that are stored in the brain and retrieved without conscious effort. Driving to school is a task that becomes automatic with practice and thus can be completed without conscious awareness or attention. This is an example of implicit memory. Explicit memory, on the other hand, refers to memories that are consciously stored and retrieved, such as the details of a presentation that you were thinking about while driving. The other answer choices (explicit base and implicit base) are not valid options as they are not established concepts in memory research.

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