A friend asks you to make a phone call for them and tells you the phone number to call. As you walk to the telephone booth, you silently repeat the number to yourself to remember it. This example best demonstrates the process of
A)maintenance rehearsal
B)sensory memory
C)automatic processing
D)elaborative rehearsal

Question

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Repeating the phone number to yourself to remember it is an example of maintenance rehearsal, which is a strategy for keeping information in short-term memory or for moving it into long-term memory by repeating the information to oneself without attempting to find meaning in it.

A Friend Asks You to Make a Phone Call for Them