Because she didn't have a piece of paper handy, Mary mentally repeated the long-distance phone number over and over. Mary tried to keep the information in:

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Mary is mentally repeating the phone number, which indicates that she is trying to keep the information in her short-term memory. The fact that she doesn't have a piece of paper handy suggests that she is not attempting to transfer the information to her long-term memory. Sensory memory is only a brief holding space for sensory information, whereas iconic memory is a subtype of sensory memory specific to visual information.

Because She Didn't Have a Piece of Paper Handy, Mary