A classic experiment by psychologist George Sperling 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.


Answer: d. information is held in visual sensory memory for about half a second.

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