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magmichele12

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Long-term memory is normally capable of retaining how many pieces of information?
 
  a. seven pieces of information
  b. fivetonine chunks of information
  c. an indefinite amount of information
  d. about one million pieces of information

Question 2

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


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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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