As Rita scans the yellow pages section of her phonebook looking for a florist, she sees several other products and services advertised. Though interesting on first glance, she quickly returns to her primary task of finding a florist. The items that distracted her from her initial search were most likely stored in which of the following types of memory?

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Short-term memory is the type of memory that holds information for a brief period of time, typically up to 30 seconds. In this scenario, the distracting items from the phonebook were only briefly held in Rita's memory, indicating that they were stored in her short-term memory.

As Rita Scans the Yellow Pages Section of Her Phonebook