The phrase "7 plus or minus 2" refers to the
A) time it takes for the sensory register to work.
B) number of events that can be in the sensory register.
C) length needed for long-term memory encoding.
D) storage capacity of short-term memory.

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"7 plus or minus 2" refers to the storage capacity of short-term memory, specifically that it can hold approximately 5 to 9 items at a time. This was proposed by psychologist George Miller in his 1956 paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information."

The Phrase "7 Plus or Minus 2" Refers to the