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

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This is the Brown-Peterson task, which involves presenting participants with a stimulus to remember and then distracting them with a task (in this case, counting backwards) before testing their memory of the original stimulus. The task is designed to measure the duration of short-term memory.  The other options (paired associate learning, mental rotation, Sternberg task) involve different types of memory tasks.

First,people Are to Attend to a To-Be-Remembered Three-Letter Stimulus,and Then