As Rita scans the yellow pages section of her phone book 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 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 responsible for holding onto information for a brief period of time. It has limited capacity, and information stored in short-term memory can be easily forgotten or displaced by new stimuli. In this scenario, as Rita is distracted by the other products and services advertised in the yellow pages, it is likely that this information was stored in her short-term memory but quickly forgotten as she refocused on her primary task of finding a florist.

As Rita Scans the Yellow Pages Section of Her Phone