As a safety precaution, hotels no longer stamp room numbers on keys. Thus, the clerk tells you the room you will be occupying. In order to remember the room number as you walk to the elevator,

you repeat the following over and over: eleven, zero, five; eleven, zero, five. Why are you doing this?
a) to keep the information in short-term memory
b) to allow the clerk's voice to serve as a retrieval cue
c) to allow the information to consolidate in sensory memory
d) to connect the information with the visual image of the room number on the door


ANS: a

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