In the 1950s, George Miller showed that the capacity of short-term memory is ____.
A) 7 ± 2 bits of information
B) 20 chunks of data
C) about 5 facts, 2 concepts, and 1 feeling
D) 15 items

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George Miller's famous paper, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information," presented evidence that suggests the capacity of short-term memory is about 7 ± 2 chunks of information.

In the 1950s, George Miller Showed That the Capacity of Short-Term