People are presented with 16 digits,read one at a time.The last digit is a repetition of a previous digit.A person is to report the number that followed the repeated digit when it was presented for the first time.The name for this task is the __________ task.
A)digit span
B)Brown-Peterson
C)probe-digit
D)Sternberg

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The task described is known as a probe-digit task, in which participants must remember a sequence of digits and report the digit that immediately followed a specified probe digit (in this case, the repeated digit). The other options listed (digit span, Brown-Peterson, and Sternberg) describe different types of memory tasks that do not match the description given.

People Are Presented with 16 Digits,read One at a Time