After being asked to remember three consonants,participants in a study by Peterson and Peterson counted aloud backward by threes to prevent
A) shallow processing.
B) iconic memory.
C) encoding failure.
D) rehearsal.

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Counting aloud backward by threes is a form of rehearsal, or actively repeating information in order to maintain it in memory. This suggests that the participants were trying to prevent forgetting the consonants through rehearsal, rather than relying on shallow processing or iconic memory. Encoding failure is also unrelated to the task at hand, as the participants had already been instructed to remember the consonants.

After Being Asked to Remember Three Consonants,participants in a Study