While Bei Is Taking Notes About One Slide Presented in a Lecture

Multiple Choice

While Bei is taking notes about one slide presented in a lecture, the professor switches to the next slide before Bei finishes taking notes on the first slide. Bei finds herself caught between the notes she needs to take for both slides and attending to the new slide. Bei's difficulty is due to the fact that her:

A) long-term memory has limited capacity and cannot switch attention quickly enough.
B) perceptual system can hold only a small number of words at a time.
C) working memory can hold only a limited amount of information for a brief period.
D) perceptual system cannot send information to her attentional system quickly enough.