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In September 1959, psychology researchers Lloyd and Margaret Peterson tested how quickly people forget information. The researchers asked their study participants to remember a random trigram, a three-letter group (e.g., KHZ). Next, the researchers gave the participants a three-digit number (e.g., 375). The participants were then instructed to count backward from the number by subtracting three (e.g., 372, 369, 366, etc.).
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Stull, E. (2018). Memory. In: UX Fundamentals for Non-UX Professionals. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3811-0_17
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