By showing people three rows of three letters each for only a fraction of a second, George Sperling demonstrated that people have ________ memory.

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By showing people three rows of three letters each for only a fraction of a second, George Sperling demonstrated iconic memory, which is a visual sensory memory that holds a brief visual image of a scene that has just been perceived. Option A is incorrect as state-dependent memory refers to the phenomenon where memory retrieval is improved if the person's internal state is similar to the state they were in during encoding. Option B is incorrect as flashbulb memory is a highly detailed, exceptionally vivid 'snapshot' of the moment and circumstances in which a piece of surprising and consequential (or emotionally arousing) news was heard. Option D is incorrect as procedural memory is a type of long-term memory for how to perform different skills or actions.

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