Psychologist George Sperling's Classic Experiment Demonstrated That

question 429

Multiple Choice

Psychologist George Sperling's classic experiment demonstrated that:

• A) the capacity of short-term memory is virtually limitless.
• B) the schemas that people hold in a particular situation can erroneously influence the details they later remember about the situation.
• C) distributed practice is superior to massed practice.
• D) information is held in visual sensory memory for about half a second.

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Definitions:

Simple Linear Regression

A technique in statistics that estimates the association between an independent variable and a dependent variable using a straight line.

Negatively Related

A term describing the relationship between two variables where an increase in one variable is associated with a decrease in the other.

Correlation Coefficient

A statistical measure that calculates the strength of the relationship between two variables and their direction (positive or negative).

y-Intercept Coefficient

The constant term in a linear regression model, representing the value of the dependent variable when all independent variables are set to zero.