Sean stopped outside his professor's office to check on the answers to a quiz. When he began to write the answers down, his pen ran out of ink. He repeated the last four answers to himself while he rushed to his dorm room to write them down. This is best explained by the concept of
a. maintenance rehearsal.
b. elaborative rehearsal.
c. whole rehearsal.
d. partial rehearsal. e. chunking.
a
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