Using the partial report method, Sperling found the capacity of iconic memory could hold
A) about four or five letters.
B) about nine or ten letters.
C) all the letters present.
D) about one to two letters.
Answer: C
Rationale: Using the partial report method, participants were only asked to report only three or four of the letters they had seen, but they could report them from any randomly selected line. Thus Sperling argued that iconic memory had to hold all 12 letters as a mental image.
Psychology
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