Your new friend just told you her cell number so you can enter it in your phone. However, you left your cell phone in your dorm
room. You keep repeating the number over and over in your head so that you will be able to enter the number in your cell phone once you get to it. What memory strategy are you using?
Rehearsal is an strategy used when it comes to memory, this strategy consists in repeating the information you need to remember in order to get it processed and stored. In other words, it is about repeating information without thinking about its meaning or connecting it to other information.
Usually, once you stop repeating the information, it disappears from your mind and you cannot recall it anymore.
In this example, you keep repeating your friend's number over and over so that you will be able to enter the number in your cell phone once you get to it. You are <u>repeating the information you need without thinking about its meaning or connecting it to other numbers. Once you store the number on your phone, you'll forget the number you've been repeating.</u> Thus, this is an example of the memory strategy of rehearsal.
Many primary sources cannot be understood because of the language or they way they have written it. We can't always understand it because its from a culture completely different from our own. Reading primary sources requires your his historical imagination.
The correct answer would be C. Joe is using the long term memory. This type of memory is maintained or can be hold for a very long period of time. It is any memory that you remember that happened earlier or a few minutes ago. Short term is known to last only for about 18 to 30 seconds only so it should be the long term memory that is working.
