If the letters OBACKFIBHJCA are rearranged into HBO-JFK-CIA-ABC, they become much easier to store in short-term memory. This phenomenon illustrates the usefulness of ____in short-term memory.
a. rehearsal
b. chunking
c. peg-word systems
d. the method of loci
Question 2
When Frances went to work this morning, she checked her voice mail. Her boss left her a message outlining twenty-six tasks that she needs to complete. Unfortunately, the message was accidentally deleted after Frances listened to it once. Because she did not write down the tasks as she listened to the message, how many of the tasks will Frances most likely remember?
a. one to four
b. five to nine
c. ten to fourteen
d. fifteen to nineteen
Letters and Numbers
New England children like David, Joanna, and Abigail Mason (painted by an unknown artist around 1670
William Morris, Page from a specimen book with sample proof letters, Kelmscott Press.
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