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corkyiscool3328

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Traditionally, according to Miller, the capacity of short-term memory is thought to be __________.
 
  a. seven plus or minus two units of information
  b. whatever is in the primacy effect
  c. about 30 seconds
  d. whatever can be managed by a serial exhaustive search

Question 2

Seven plus or minus two units of information describes __________.
 
  a. the duration of short-term memory
  b. the capacity of short-term memory
  c. the forgetting rate of short-term memory
  d. an experimental construct for constructing memory lists



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Answer to Question 1

Correct: a

Answer to Question 2

Correct: b



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