You are absorbed in reading your psychology text when the phone rings.After talking on the phone,you can't remember the last thing you read.What happened

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The distraction of the phone call likely interrupted the process of actively rehearsing the information in short-term memory, causing it to be forgotten. The information was not yet stored in long-term memory, so it could not have been lost from that store. Sensory memory is where information is briefly held after being perceived by the senses, so it is unlikely to have been lost from there.

You Are Absorbed in Reading Your Psychology Text When the Phone