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Sperling’s partial report technique was designed to test the
(A) serial position effect.
(B) capacity of sensory memory.
(C) duration of working memory.
(D) difference between STM and LTM.
(E) misinformation effect.
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Answer
(B) capacity of sensory memory.
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Explanation
Sperling’s partial report technique was designed to test the capacity of sensory memory. Sperling hypothesized that the reason people were only able to report about four items they were exposed to for a split second was not that more items didn’t make it into the sensory register but that the memory decayed before the people could report them. He used the partial report technique to expose participants to a matrix of 12 letters (3 rows of 4) and showed that if cued on which line to report immediately after the matrix was removed from view, participants could usually recall the entire row correctly. This technique is not used to test the serial position effect, duration of working memory, difference between STM and LTM, or misinformation effect.
Posted : 14/05/2024 4:40 pm