Using the partial report method, Sperling found the capacity of iconic memory to be around
A) four or five items.
B) nine or ten items.
C) all the letters present.
D) one to two items.
E) seven plus or minus two items.

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Sperling found that participants could report all the letters present in iconic memory, regardless of the number of items present. This suggests that the capacity of iconic memory is quite large, but that information fades quickly.

Using the Partial Report Method, Sperling Found the Capacity of Iconic