Question

Cal is watching a cooking show and wants to try one of the dishes. The recipe is being read aloud by the host. Unfortunately, Cal doesn’t write anything down thinking he can remember it. "One cup flour, one teaspoon sugar...oh I just can’t keep up. I’ve forgotten the first couple of ingredients." Cal’s problem is best explained by:

Answer 1

Keeping the information in short term memory

Step-by-step explanation:

Cal just took the information in short term memory. Short term memory provides very limited time to keep information in memory. In a long memory, people can keep information longer. There are some strategies to transfer information from short memory to long memory such as repetition, recalling, taking action and writing. In this situation, Cal only gets informed once and he didn't take any action to transfer information to long memory by taking actions like writing.