As Kayla was introduced to the seven members of the committee who would be interviewing her for a scholarship, she silently repe
ated all the names to herself, in order. Kayla was using: a. Acoustic encoding to process the names semantically b. Rehearsal to temporarily store the names in short-term memory c. Chunking to increase the capacity of her short-term memory d. Filtering to temporarily block other information out of short-term memory
Answer: b. Rehearsal to temporarily store the names in short-term memory.
Explanation:
In psychology, <em>rehearsal</em>refers to the phenomenon of repeating information over and over again in order to memorize it. As seen in this case, Kayla is presented with new information - she has just met seven people and wants to memorize their names. For this reason, she repeats the names to herself. She is not trying to block other information, or encode the sounds. She is also not chunking (breaking down pieces of information and connecting them afterwards).
