Suppose you spent the next two years practicing your ability to memorize numbers. How would your short-term memory probably change, if at all?
a. Your memory ability would not change in any noticeable way
b. Proactive interference would prevent you from learning any more number sequences.
c. You would learn to use chunking to store long sequences of numbers.
d. You would increase the capacity of short-term memory for all types of information.
c
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