A psychologist flashes a sequence of five letters (such as STWLG) on a screen in front of you and then asks you immediately to count backward from 1000 by 7s. After a few seconds, she asks you to recall the five letters
This psychologist is most likely studying the ________.
a. effect of proactive interference on STM
b. use of semantic codes in LTM
c. role of decay in STM loss
d. relative effectiveness of rote and elaborative rehearsal
Answer: c
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