When we are pricing items in a grocery store, and we attempt to remember the prices of three different brands of 7-ounce cans of tuna fish by repeating them again and again, the information is being held in ________

a. secondary memory
b. the sensory registers
c. short-term memory
d. long-term memory


Answer: c

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