What "magic number" did George Miller find to be the capacity of short-term memory?

a) 11
b) 9
c) 7
d) 5


ANS: C

Psychology

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a. prospective memory. c. recognition. b. retrospective memory. d. expectancies.

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a. stereotaxic apparatus b. stereotaxic atlas c. stereotaxic electrode apparatus d. stereotaxic microscope

Psychology