In Sperling's Full-Report Procedure, After Viewing a Matrix of Letters

question 82

Multiple Choice

In Sperling's full-report procedure, after viewing a matrix of letters for less than 1 second, what were participants asked to do?

• A) listen for a tone, and report only those letters in the row signaled by the tone
• B) listen for a tone, and report all letters they could remember from the entire matrix
• C) report all letters they could remember from the entire matrix
• D) view a second matrix and report only those letters that were in both matrices

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