You don't have any paper or pencil to write the phone number someone is giving you, so you repeat the number until you are able to write it down. This is an example of .

Rehearsal

Explanation:

A rehearsal is mental practice of an activity over and over again in preparation of actually doing the activity. There are 2 types of rehearsal: the elaboraive and maintenance rehearsal.

The maintenance rehearsal is when new information if is repeated so that it is kept in the shot term memory.

In this instance repeating the phone number again and again is to keep it in short term memory till it can be written down.

- "sack of constantinople, (april 1204). the diversion of the fourth crusade from the holy land to attack, capture, and pillage the byzantine city of constantinople divided and dissipated the efforts of the christians to maintain the war against the muslims. the fourth crusade was corrupted from its purpose early on."

- "the crusades were a series of religious wars undertaken by the latin church. the first crusade arose after a call to arms in 1095 sermons by pope urban ii. the first crusade unleashed a wave of impassioned, pious catholic fury, which was of constantinople, the capital of the christian-controlled byzantine empire."

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