Maintenance rehearsal is defined as __________.
A. processing the physical features of the stimulus to be remembered
B. analyzing new material in order to make it memorable
C. associating new material to be learned with information maintained in long-term memory
D. repeating some bit of information over and over in one's head in order to maintain it in short-term memory
Answer: D
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