In the 1950s, George Miller showed that the capacity of short-term memory is ____

a. ?I7 ± 2 bits of information
b. ?20 chunks of data
c. ?about 5 facts, 2 concepts, and 1 feeling
d. ?15 items


ANSWER:
a

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