When we are pricing items in a grocery store, and we attempt to remember the prices of three different brands of 7-ounce cans of tuna fish by repeating them again and again, the information is being held in ________.
A) secondary memory
B) the sensory registers
C) short-term memory
D) long-term memory

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Short-term memory refers to the temporary storage of information that we are actively processing, such as trying to remember the prices of different brands of tuna fish while pricing items in a grocery store. This information can be held for a limited amount of time, typically around 20-30 seconds, before either being transferred to long-term memory or forgotten. Secondary memory refers to long-term storage of information, while sensory registers refer to the initial perception of information from our senses.

When We Are Pricing Items in a Grocery Store, and We