As Kayla Was Introduced to the Seven Members of the Committee

question 281

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.Kayla was using

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

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Definitions:

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