Someone asks you what time it is. You check your watch and answer. A few seconds later, after you have been distracted, someone asks what time you said it was. You have forgotten. According to the traditional information-processing view, what type of memory was this?

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According to the traditional information-processing view, the type of memory that holds information temporarily is short-term memory. Forgetting the time that was just checked on the watch suggests that the information was not effectively transferred to long-term memory.

Someone Asks You What Time It Is