Which of the following is true regarding short-term memory? answer a. it has a relatively large capacity. b. it maintains information for a few seconds or less. c. it receives information only from sensory memory. d. it contains conscious thought, reasoning and perception

The answer is B. Intuitively, as the names suggest, short terms memory is used to, for example, recite a phone number to use it immediately before one forgets. It is referred to as the content of your conscious experience. The memory also holds limited information and believed the maximum to be no more than 7 chunks of data.