In the 1950s, George Miller Estimated the Number of Items

question 35

Multiple Choice

In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory to be the magic number __________.

• A) 5, plus or minus 4
• B) 7, plus or minus 2
• C) 9, plus or minus 3
• D) 11, plus or minus 1

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