The storage capacity of long-term memory is best described as: ____________?
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- A. a single item
- B. about seven items
- C. about seven volumes
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Explanation
Long-term memory has no known fixed capacity and can store an extremely large amount of information over long periods. The limits of about one item or seven items apply to short-term or working memory, not long-term memory.
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