As Kayla Was Introduced to the Seven Members of the Committee

question 53

Multiple Choice

As Kayla was introduced to the seven members of the committee who would be interviewing her for a scholarship, she silently repeated all the names to herself, in order. Which of the following was Kayla using, and why?

• A)chunking to increase the capacity of her short-term memory
• B)filtering to temporarily block other information out of short-term memory
• C)acoustic encoding to process the names semantically
• D)rehearsal to temporarily store the names in short-term memory

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