Peterson and Peterson studied how well participants can remember groups of three letters (like BRT, QSD) after various delays. They found that participants remembered an average of 80 percent of the groups after 3 seconds but only 10 percent after 18 seconds. They hypothesized that this decrease in performance was due to , but later research showed that it was actually due to . a. priming; interference
b. decay; interference
c. decay; lack of rehearsal
d. interference; decay

Lakita wants to get a degree in accounting so that she can become a cpa. she has decided to take classes online, however, because she is very timid about going to a class with 30 other students where she might be expected to speak out. she is afraid that if she says something silly, gives a wrong answer, or just acts in an inappropriate way she will be shamed in front of others. lakita has always struggled with this problem, and has thus lived as relatively isolated life for quite a few years. lakita might be diagnosed as having: antisocial personality disorder.negativistic personality disorder.avoidant personality disorder.schizoid personality disorder.