Suppose you're on the phone with a customer support representative who gives you a ticket number for your records. You're later transferred to a different representative who asks for your ticket number, but you've forgotten it. This probably occurred because the number was only temporarily stored in your

A. sensory memory.
B. short-term memory.
C. long-term memory.
D. episodic memory.


Answer: B

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