Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 24

The kind of memory that has a limited capacity of about seven items (plus or minus two) and a short duration (2-30 seconds) for unrehearsed information is called either (a) _____ or _____ memory. One way to increase this memory capacity is by combining separate pieces of information into larger units, which is called (b) _____ One way to increase the duration of this memory is by repeating the information, which is called (c) _____.