Question

Abraham is at a club with some friends when he sees an attractive woman at another table. he strikes up a friendly conversation with her, and after a while she gives him her email address. abraham repeats the email address to himself over and over again while he signals to a friend that he needs a pen so he can write it down. abraham is using __________ to keep the information active in his working memory.

Answer 1

Abraham is using "maintenance rehearsal" to keep the information active in his working memory.
Maintenance rehearsal refers to a kind of short-term memory which is good to keep the information for a short time span also known as working memory but this is not useful method to keep the information into long term memory.