Liv has just seen a commercial advertising a fancy kind of make-up that she would like to buy. She does not have a pen or a piece of paper to write down the telephone number, so she repeats to herself over and over again while she runs into the kitchen to find the telephone. Liv is currently using the process of ________ rehearsal to keep the telephone number active in her short-term memory.

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Liv is repeating the telephone number to herself in order to maintain it in her short-term memory, which is an example of maintenance rehearsal. Distributed rehearsal involves spreading out studying over time, elaborative rehearsal involves making connections to pre-existing knowledge, and semantic rehearsal involves encoding information based on its meaning.

Liv Has Just Seen a Commercial Advertising a Fancy Kind