The two primary tasks of short-term memory are to ________
a. store information permanently and to process how meaningful that information is
b. store information permanently and to work on that (and other) information
c. store information briefly and to work on that (and other) information
d. hold on to information just long enough to begin initial processing by the nervous system and to selectively filter out irrelevant information
Answer: c
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