Suppose one's boss catches him in the hallway and asks him to attend a meeting the next day. In order to remember the time and location of the meeting, he repeats it over and over to himself until he gets back to his office and can write it down in his schedule. In his rehearsal, he is using the:
A) visuospatial sketchpad.
B) phonological loop.
C) long-term memory.
D) iconic memory.

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The phonological loop is part of the working memory that deals with verbal and auditory information. By repeating the time and location of the meeting over and over, he is using the phonological loop to keep this verbal information active in his memory until he can write it down.

Suppose One's Boss Catches Him in the Hallway and Asks