George Sperling was able to differentiate between the amount of information that could be stored in sensory memory and the time until the memory faded by cuing participants to recall
A) an entire visual scene from memory.
B) a row of letters in a visual array.
C) the first letters of words in a visual array.
D) the second of three sentences in a visual array.

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George Sperling's experiment involved flashing a visual array of letters for a brief period of time and then cuing participants to recall a specific row of letters. This allowed him to measure the capacity of sensory memory (which was shown to be large, as participants could recall any row if cued immediately after the array) and the duration of sensory memory (which was shown to be brief, as performance declined rapidly if there was a delay between the array and the cue).

George Sperling Was Able to Differentiate Between the Amount of Information