Short-Term Storage

question 32

Multiple Choice

Short-term storage

• A) holds information for up to a second.
• B) involves primarily semantic encoding.
• C) has virtually unlimited capacity.
• D) uses working memory to help maintain information.

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

A distribution indicating the probabilities of a statistic, which is calculated from a random sample.

Sample Proportion

The fraction of the sample that represents a particular attribute or characteristic.

Normal Probability Distribution

A bell-shaped distribution characterized by its mean and standard deviation, representing a continuous random variable.

Central Limit Theorem

A statistical theory that states that the distribution of sample means approximates a normal distribution as the sample size becomes larger, regardless of the population's distribution.