We look up a number in the phone book, push the book away, and then begin to dial the number. Why do we discourage an interruption during this process?

A:  information lasts only 15-25 seconds in short-term memory.

Explanation:

Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that this usually occurs due to the fact that information lasts only 15-25 seconds in short-term memory. Information in short-term memory tends to decay very quickly if it is not constantly received, and tends to last even less if there are interruptions during this period of time.

1. government controls industry through policy

2.government is both a consumer and a producer

4. government can use policy t influence economy

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)