Jessica Li held up three rows of four letters on a poster board to her high school class for a fraction of a second. She then removed it and immediately asked the class to name the 12 letters they had just been shown. Based on previous research, about how many letters would you expect individual students to recall?

A) 0
B) 5
C) 8
D) 10


B) 5

Psychology

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