Short-Term Memory Can Hold About 12 Plus or Minus 2

question 235

True/False

Short-term memory can hold about 12 plus or minus 2 bits of information.

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Definitions:

Floral Parts

The components that make up the structure of a flower, including sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels.

Monocot

Refers to a group of flowering plants (angiosperms) that have a single cotyledon, or seed leaf, in the embryo.

Angiosperms

Flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed within a fruit.

Lycopods

Ancient group of non-flowering plants, part of the clubmoss family, with simple leaves (microphylls) and spore-based reproduction.