While driving her children, Adriana's car broke down. She called her husband on the cell phone for the number of a towing company. If the children's behavior prevents her from repeating the number to herself, most likely Adriana will need to dial the phone number within the next <u>15 seconds</u> or she will forget the number.
The phone number is committed to her short-term memory and the short-term memory can store an average of 7 bits of information within a duration of 15-30 seconds, if Adriana does not consolidate the information by repeating the number till it is transferred to the long-term memory, she is most likely to forget the number within 15 seconds.
