Polina Participates in a Short-Term Memory Experiment

question 92

Multiple Choice

Polina participates in a short-term memory experiment.The experimenter reads aloud a list of twenty objects,and Polina has to mentally rate how effective each object would be if she was stranded on a deserted island.The experimenter then asks her to count backwards by threes from one hundred.This task,known as ____,ensures that 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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