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Answer:
If I were designing a study in which I wanted to assess memory, I might ask people to remember three words, then have them recite a phone number to prevent rehearsal of the three new words.
Explanation:
<u>When asked to memorize information, be it words or numbers, for instance, people tend to rehearse it mentally to remember it for a longer period of time. However, it is possible to prevent rehearsal from happening when conducting studies to assess memory.</u> One of the ways is precisely the one described in the question. People were asked to <u>memorize three words</u>, but were prevented from rehearsing them by having to <u>recite a phone number</u>. <u>In that case, as studies have shown, there is memory decay.</u>
