In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory to be the magic number __________.
A) five, plus or minus four
B) seven, plus or minus two
C) nine, plus or minus three
D) 11, plus or minus one

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George Miller's estimate of the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory was seven, plus or minus two. This means that the range of items that could be stored in short-term memory was between five and nine.

In the 1950s, George Miller Estimated the Number of Items