Consider the sentence, "Sam, tired from hours of reading and working on his term paper, fell into bed at last." When you reach the sentence's 13th word ("fell"), you need to remember how the sentence began; otherwise, you won't know who fell into bed. The memory used for this task is called

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The memory used for this task is working memory, which is responsible for temporarily holding and manipulating information in the mind to complete a task or goal. It is also known as short-term memory.

Consider the Sentence, "Sam, Tired from Hours of Reading and Working