Question

Janine just heard a story about sharks. From the story, she learned that sharks live in the ocean and are good swimmers. When asked if sharks can live on land, she uses her new information combined with her prior knowledge about other fish—that they have gills and extract oxygen from the water—to answer the question. Her new and existing knowledge are processed in _____ memory
a. working memory.
b. short-term memory.
c. sensory memory.
d. long-term memory.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is - option A.

Explanation:

Working Memory is a system for temporarily holding the information or the memory need to carry out the processing and able to deal it with reasoning for decision making or behavior.

This type of memory helps in solving the problem by relating with the prior knowledge or information and utilize it with reasoning and guidance. In this question Janine used her prior knowledge of about sharks and use it to answer the question on basis of that.

Thus, the correct answer is - option A.