Polina participates in a short-term memory experiment. The experimenter reads aloud a list of twenty objects, and Polina has to mentally rate how effective each object would be if she was stranded on a deserted island. The experimenter then asks her to count backwards by threes from one hundred. This task, known as , ensures that Polina does not rehearse the information to keep it in her short-term memory. a. motivated forgetting
b. chunking
c. the Brown-Peterson distractor technique
d. the relearning method