Sean stops outside his professor’s office to check on the answers to a quiz. as he begins to write the answers down, his pen runs out of ink. he repeats the last four answers to himself while he rushes to his dorm room to write them down.
this is best explained by the concept of:

a) maintenance rehearsal.
b) elaborative rehearsal.
c) whole rehearsal.
d) partial rehearsal.
e) chunking.

a. maintenance rehearsal.

Explanation:

Maintenance rehearsal -

It refers to the method of continuous speaking or thinking of a particular piece of information is referred to as maintenance rehearsal .

The method is adapted to learn or memorize the information , quickly .

Since , the short term memory can keep the information for 20 second , which can be further increased by practice the information again and again  .

Hence, from the given scenario of the question,

The correct term is a. maintenance rehearsal .