The Brown-Peterson paradigm, designed to determine the rate at which information decays from a short-term memory store, comprises three steps: ________.
A) a variable-length arithmetic task, a syllable presentation, syllable-recall task
B) syllable presentation, a variable-length arithmetic task, syllable-recall task
C) syllable presentation, a variable-length rest in darkness, syllable-recall task
D) a long-arithmetic task, a presentation os a list of syllable, syllable-recall task

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The Brown-Peterson paradigm involves first presenting a syllable (or a few syllables), then engaging the participant in a distractor task (in this case, a variable-length arithmetic task) to prevent rehearsal, and finally asking the participant to recall the syllable(s). This process is designed to test the decay of information from short-term memory when rehearsal is prevented.

The Brown-Peterson Paradigm, Designed to Determine the Rate at Which