Polina Participated in a Short-Term Memory Experiment

question 156

Multiple Choice

Polina participated in a short-term memory experiment. The experimenter read aloud a list of twenty objects, and Polina had to mentally rate how effective each object would be if she was stranded on a deserted island. The experimenter then asked her to count backward by threes from one hundred. This task, known as __________, ensures Polina does not rehearse the information to keep it in her short-term memory.

• A)motivated forgetting
• B)chunking
• C)the Brown-Peterson distractor technique
• D)the relearning method

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Definitions:

Zaitsev's Rule

A rule in organic chemistry predicting that in an elimination reaction, the more substituted alkene product will be favored.

Heat of Hydrogenation

The change in enthalpy that accompanies the addition of hydrogen (H2) to unsaturated bonds in a molecule, typically measured as a release of heat.

Constitutional Isomers

Compounds sharing identical molecular formulas yet exhibiting differences in the arrangement of their atoms.

Catalytic Hydrogenation

The process of adding hydrogen to unsaturated bonds in organic compounds in the presence of a catalyst.