According to George Miller, the magic number seven plus or minus two refers to
A)the number of pieces of information the average person can easily recall after a single exposure.
B)the amount of information that can be memorized in one sitting.
C)the number of saccadic eye movements in a fixation.
D)the time it takes information to pass from short-term memory to long-term memory.

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The magic number seven plus or minus two refers to the number of pieces of information the average person can easily recall after a single exposure. This is known as the capacity of short-term memory, which is limited to holding around seven items (plus or minus two) at a time.

According to George Miller, the Magic Number Seven Plus or Minus