At this point, it seems that the most likely explanation for forgetting in short-term memory is ...

At this point, it seems that the most likely explanation for forgetting in short-term memory is __________.
 
  a. decay
  b. interference
  c. suppression
  d. failure

Question 2

People are presented with 16 digits, read one at a time. The last digit is a repetition of a previous digit. A person is to report the number that followed the repeated digit when it was presented for the first time.
 
  The name for this task is the __________ task.
  a. digit span
  b. Brown-Peterson
  c. probedigit
  d. Sternberg

Question 3

The initial interpretation of the results from the Brown-Peterson task was that short-term memory forgetting was caused by a(n) __________ process.
 
  a. decay
  b. interference
  c. suppression
  d. articulatory

Question 4

First, people are to attend to a to-be-remembered three-letter stimulus, and then they are shown a number.
 
  They are to count backwards by threes from the number. At the end of the variable length period of counting, the people were asked to report the original three-letter stimulus. Which test is this?
  a. paired associate learning
  b. Brown-Peterson task
  c. mental rotation
  d. Sternberg task