Author Question: After looking up a friend's new number in the phone book, Franklin discovers that the pay phone is ... (Read 152 times)

wenmo · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

After looking up a friend's new number in the phone book, Franklin discovers that the pay phone is being monopolized by someone. Assuming that Franklin is not rehearsing the number, what is the longest period of time that he can wait without forgetting the number entirely?

a. one second
b. ten seconds
c. twenty seconds
d. two minutes

Question 2

Toni has to remember her shopping list, which contains the following items: lemons, saw, beer, napkins, apples, lettuce, nails, cups, juice, newspaper, magazine, milk, and screwdriver. She decides to mentally place the items in categories: (1) lemons, apples, lettuce; (2) beer, juice, milk; (3) saw, nails, screwdriver; (4) newspaper, magazine; and (5) napkins, cups. Which method did Toni not use in this process?

a. chunking
b. long-term memory
c. Brown-Peterson distractor technique
d. short-term memory