Describe the Brown-Peterson Short-Term Memory Procedure Used in Scarborough's (1972)

question 69

Essay

Describe the Brown-Peterson short-term memory procedure used in Scarborough's (1972) experiment. Describe the results of this experiment.

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Definitions:

Optical Activity

The ability of a substance to rotate the plane of polarization of polarized light, a property observed in chiral molecules.

Superimposable

Describes when two objects can be placed on top of each other, matching perfectly in shape and size.

Meso Form

A type of stereoisomer with multiple chiral centers that is superimposable on its mirror image due to a plane of symmetry, rendering it achiral.

Chirality Centers

Specific atoms within a molecule that have four different groups attached, resulting in non-superimposable mirror images.