Buster is hungry for a Garcia's pizza. Because he is new in town, he doesn’t have the number memorized. He looks up the number and repeats it to himself as he goes to the phone. This helps the number stay in Buster's memory.

Short term Memory

Explanation:

Buster is hungry for a Garcia's pizza. Because he is new in town, he doesn’t have the number memorized. He looks up the number and repeats it to himself as he goes to the phone. This helps the number stay in Buster's short term memory.

Short-term memory is the capacity to keep a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time and it has a limited capacity which can hold about few memory item for only short period of time (no more than 20 or 30 second at a time).

The information that a person is currently thing about; Buster memorizing or repeating the number in an effort not to forget the number.

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d. i assume the underlined word is "role." reformat if it isn't.

explanation:

role is closest to part because when replacing words, "playing a vital decision," "playing a vital activity," and "playing a vital dollar" don't make logical sense. the only meaningful choice is "playing a vital part."

this fits one of merriam-webster's definitions of role: "a function or part performed especially in a particular operation or process."