In Sperling's Study of Sensory Memory, Participants Looked at Three

question 109

Multiple Choice

In Sperling's study of sensory memory, participants looked at three rows of letters flashed for one-twentieth of a second. In this study, the dependent variable was:

• A) sensory memory
• B) the row of letters
• C) the number of letters remembered
• D) the tones indicating which row to recall

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