All night, Pedro has been staring at Samantha from across the dance floor. At the end of the night, he finally gets the courage to ask her for her telephone number. His mental repetition of the number on the drive home is one example of
A) chunking.
B) the power of suggestion.
C) rehearsal.
D) transference of memory.
Answer: C
Rationale: Rehearsal is the repeating information until you do not need to remember it anymore. In this example, Pedro is using rehearsal to keep the phone number in his short-term memory until he has an opportunity to write it down. Rehearsal can also sometimes help memories transfer to long-term memory.
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