You are engrossed in your favorite tv show in the living room. your roommate yells for you to quickly bring a flyswatter to the kitchen. vaguely aware that a request is being made of you, you ask your roommate to repeat herself. before she can reply, however, the words "bring a flyswatter to the kitchen" play through your mind. this is an example of

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Smoke

30 January, 23:59

You are engrossed in your favorite tv show in the living room. your roommate yells for you to quickly bring a flyswatter to the kitchen. vaguely aware that a request is being made of you, you ask your roommate to repeat herself. before she can reply, however, the words "bring a flyswatter to the kitchen" play through your mind. this is an example of

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Frances Benjamin · Answer 1

The above paragraph is describing an example of selective memory. Selective memory is when you barely recall that you hear or see what you have heard until at the last minute. What that implied is that we space out at times, and briefly we recall what we hear or see.