George Miller demonstrated that short-term memory capacity for digits was:
A) between 10 and 20 digits.
B) virtually unlimited.
C) about 3 digits.
D) between 5 and 9 digits.

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George Miller's research, famously summarized in his 1956 paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two," demonstrated that the average short-term memory capacity for digits (and other chunks of information) is between 5 and 9.

George Miller Demonstrated That Short-Term Memory Capacity for Digits Was