You pass some one on the street and he looks familiar to you. You don't remember the person's name, but you can recall that you met him at a New Year's Eve party last year at a friend's house and you can even recall what he was wearing. These types of memories are best described as examples of
A)effortful processing
B)procedural memory
C)automatic processing
D)maintenance rehearsal

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

This scenario describes automatic processing, which involves the unconscious encoding of incidental information such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information. Remembering someone you met casually without deliberately trying to memorize their details at the time is an example of automatic processing.

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