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

question 243

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) five, plus or minus four
• B) seven, plus or minus two
• C) nine, plus or minus three
• D) 11, plus or minus one

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