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Polina Participated in a Short-Term Memory Experiment

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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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