Question

You are absorbed in reading your psychology text when the phone rings. After talking on the phone, you can't remember the last thing you read. This information was lost from __________ memory, because the phone conversation distracted you from __________ the information.

Answer 1

Answer: 1- Short term Memory 2-Rehearsing.

Explanation: Short-term memory is the cognitive ability that allows individuals to hold information as available for a while.

A common example of short-term memory is for instance when someone tells us a phone number and we remember it for a short period until we save it on our phone.

After a while, we forget the number because it was information held in short-term memory.

To maintain this information in the short term memories one has to use certain techniques.

Those techniques imply rehearsing said information to maintain that information for a longer period.

In this particular case, the information was lost from the short-term memory because the phone conversation distracted from rehearsing the information.