Question

To make a long-distance call, you have to dial an unfamiliar phone number. you are likely to have trouble retaining the number you just looked up. this best illustrates the limited capacity of ___________ memory. long-term implicit short-term explicit

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: Short-term memory

Short-term memory is exist in order to give a person a certain level of capacity to actively hold a small amount of information.
This information should be used as soon as possible, because that information would most likely be vanished from our memory within a short period of time.