George Sperling flashed three rows each containing four letters on a screen and asked participants to recall the letters in one of the rows.What were the conclusions from this study?
A) The sensory register has a capacity of 1 to 2 items.
B) Short term memory has a capacity of 3 to 4 items.
C) Participants can only process a few items in the short time the stimuli were available.
D) Information is lost very quickly from the sensory register.

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The study demonstrated that information is lost very quickly from the sensory register as participants could not recall more than a few letters from the presented stimuli.

George Sperling Flashed Three Rows Each Containing Four Letters on a Screen