Cissy looks up a number in the phone book, pushes the book away, and then dials the number. Why does she discourage any interpretations during this process?
a) Information last only about 30 seconds in the short term memory
b) Information only lasts about 5 seconds in short term memory
c) short term memory can only store visual information
d) short term memory cannot hold more than one item
Ans: a) Information last only about 30 seconds in the short term memory
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