In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory to be the magic number __________.
A) 5, plus or minus 4
B) 7, plus or minus 2
C) 9, plus or minus 3
D) 11, plus or minus 1

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George Miller's famous study published in 1958 suggests that the capacity of short-term memory is limited to about seven items (plus or minus two), hence the answer is B.

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