memory studies

Question 1

What is Sperlings’ investigation about?

Answer 1

The sensory register

Question 2

What type of experiment did Sperling do?

Answer 2

Lab experiment

Question 3

What was Sperling’s’ method?

Answer 3

his participants were shown a whole grid with 3 rows of four letters for 50 milliseconds. Then they had to immediately recall either the whole gird or a randomly chosen row indicated by a tone.

Question 4

What was Peterson and Peterson’s’ investigation about?

Answer 4

The duration of short term memory

Question 5

What were Sperling’s results?

Answer 5

On average participants recalled 4 or five letters. When a particular row was indicated, participants could recall an average of three items, no matter which row had been selected.