Consider the partial report condition as reported by Sperling (1960)in his iconic memory experiments.Which of the following is NOT true?
A)Accuracy decreased with cue delay.
B)Only one row of letters had to be reported.
C)Context dependence was clearly illustrated.
D)A tone was used as a cue.

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The partial report condition in Sperling's iconic memory experiment did not illustrate context dependence. It was designed to test the capacity and duration of iconic memory, which is a sensory memory system that holds visual information for a brief period of time. Participants were presented with a matrix of letters for a very short duration (50 milliseconds) and then cued to report only one row of letters. The cue was a tone that sounded after the matrix disappeared. Accuracy decreased with cue delay because the information in iconic memory decayed rapidly.

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