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tth

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Someone introduces themselves to you at a party, and then you go across the room to get drinks for the two of you, and you don't think about the person's name.
 
  What is the maximum amount of time your trip to the bar
   could take, so that when you get back to the person, you'd still know their name?
   a) 20 seconds
   b) 5 seconds
   c) 1 minute
   d) 5 minutes

Question 2

The Brown-Peterson task has been used to show that the duration of short-term memory is about:
 
  a) 5 seconds.
   b) 20 seconds.
   c) 1 minute.
   d) 30 minutes.


isabelt_18

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: a

Answer to Question 2

Answer: b


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