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

Exercise 2

If you pay attention to information in sensory memory, it is automatically transferred into short-term memory, which has two main characteristics. The first is that unrehearsed information will disappear after 2-30 seconds, indicating that short-term memory has a limited (a) _____. The second characteristic is that short-term memory can hold only about seven items (plus or minus two), indicating that short-term memory has a limited (b) _____. You can increase the length of time that information remains in short-term memory by intentionally repeating the information, which is called (c) _____. You can considerably increase the capacity of short-term memory by combining separate items of information into larger units, which is called (d) _____.