How does experience with material to be remembered affect the capacity of short-term memory?
A. Experience allows information to pass directly from sensory memory to long-term memory, thereby making short-term memory unnecessary.
B. Experience acts as a perceptual filter to "weed out" irrelevant information from short-term memory.
C. Experience speeds the transmission of information from long-term memory to short-term memory, and from there to behavior.
D. Experience provides the ability to chunk information, and efficiently chunked information is more easily retained in short-term memory.
Answer: D
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