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.

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Sperling's experiment involved flashing a grid of letters for a very short period (less than a second) and then asking participants to recall as many letters as they could. He found that participants could only recall a fraction of the letters they saw, suggesting that the capacity of visual sensory memory is limited to about half a second.

A Classic Experiment by Psychologist George Sperling Demonstrated That