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All right. So this question is asking which of the following is the most accurate description of the capacity of short term and working memory. A last for about two days in most circumstances be last for less than half a minute. Unless you rehearse the information see is thought to be unlimited. There's always room for more information. Do you can handle about a half a dozen items for each of the task you're working on at any time and you can handle about half a dozen items total. All right. So let me fix my copying mistake. I put half an hour instead of half a minute, which is crucial. Okay, so when we think of short term and working memory, I think the biggest giveaway is the fact that it is short. So right off the bat we can eliminate two days because two days is way too long for a short term memory. That's to say you could remember the name of a stranger you met off the street two days ago whom you had little encounter with that might be a little too big. But you get what I'm saying that leaves us with less than half a minute unlimited room for more. And then the capacity to handle two different types of half dozens. So again obviously it's not see because they're short term memory isn't unlimited because long term memory is. So the unlimited capacity. And the idea that there's room for more is idea of long term memory. Not short term memory. Leaving us with B. D. And E. So when approaching D. N. E. It's important to remember The seven plus or -2 rule. And this was um specifically mentioned by a psychologist psychologist with the last name Miller who studied short term memory. Such that the theory proposed that you can remember things with the magic number seven plus or minus two. Such that you could code things or such as items on your short term memory. And these items are just chunks of information rather than individual numbers or letters. And this is applicable in total. So when looking at D. Any we have half a dozen for each test so that's wrong. And it's also not you can't handle half a dozen total because when thinking about the capacity of um working or short term memory we always want to think about the seven plus or minus two theory leaving us would be last half a minute unless rehearsed. And this makes sense because short memory lasts about 20 to 30 seconds unless you do that key action of rehearsing the information. Which is why we do. We have studied tactics that involved um um relearning and um replicating information and such. Such things that help us really encode and put items and memories into our long term memory. So B is the correct answer.
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