Suppose we use the bookshelf analogy to explain the capacity of short-term memory. When you use chunking to increase that capacity, ____
a. ?you are able to pack a virtually unlimited number of items into larger chunks or “books”
b. ?the size of the bookshelf is actually changed
c. ?you are changing the length of the shelf but not the depth of the shelf
d. ?you are not actually changing the size of the bookshelf
ANSWER:
d
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