In the late 1950s and early 1960s,psychologist George Sperling conducted key studies of:
A)sensory memory.
B)short-term memory.
C)semantic networks.
D)long-term memory.

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George Sperling's key studies focused on sensory memory, specifically iconic memory (visual sensory memory). He conducted experiments where participants were shown a grid of letters for a brief period of time, and were asked to remember as many letters as they could. Sperling found that participants could only recall a fraction of the letters, but when a tone was played immediately after the grid disappeared, indicating which row of letters to remember, participants were able to recall almost all of the letters in that row. This demonstrated that the sensory memory store is large, but has a limited duration.

In the Late 1950s and Early 1960s,psychologist George Sperling Conducted