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
ANSWER:
c
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