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

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Xiomara Solis

2 September, 04:28

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

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Maxim Barton · Answer 1

The answer is short-term memory.

Explanation:

Short-term memory is a memory system that stores information only for a short period of time, even seconds. This information can be processed by working memory (using the information in a dfferent way) or transferred to the long-term memory through different methods.

The amount of information that can be held by the short-term memory is very limited, as it usually involves what the person is currently thinking about.