George Miller proposed that about seven information bits constitute the capacity of ________ memory.

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George Miller's famous theory is known as Miller's Law, which suggests that the capacity of short-term or working memory is around seven (plus or minus two) bits of information. This means that people can only hold a limited amount of information in their short-term memory before it starts to become overwhelming and difficult to recall. Explicit and implicit memory refer to different types of long-term memory encoding, so these are not relevant to Miller's theory of short-term memory capacity.

George Miller Proposed That About Seven Information Bits Constitute the Capacity