Which process involves repeating information to keep it accessible in working memory?

Which process involves repeating information to keep it accessible in working memory?

• A. Interfering
• B. Remembering
• C. Rehearsing
• D. Chunking

Answer: (C)

Maintaining information in working memory relies on repeating it to keep the mental trace active. This repetition, known as rehearsal, helps prevent decay and lets you hold the item in mind just long enough to use it, like when you keep a phone number in your head by saying it over and over until you write it down. Interfering is about disruption—new information or tasks that make it harder to access what's already held—so it’s not a method for keeping information accessible. Remembering refers to retrieving information from memory, not the ongoing maintenance of it in working memory. Chunking, on the other hand, groups items into meaningful units to expand effective capacity, which aids memory but isn’t the act of repeating information to keep it active.

Maintaining information in working memory relies on repeating it to keep the mental trace active. This repetition, known as rehearsal, helps prevent decay and lets you hold the item in mind just long enough to use it, like when you keep a phone number in your head by saying it over and over until you write it down.

Interfering is about disruption—new information or tasks that make it harder to access what's already held—so it’s not a method for keeping information accessible. Remembering refers to retrieving information from memory, not the ongoing maintenance of it in working memory. Chunking, on the other hand, groups items into meaningful units to expand effective capacity, which aids memory but isn’t the act of repeating information to keep it active.