Jamal is trying to buy something over the phone. He asks his partner to read him his credit card number. However, when he tries to repeat it to the sales clerk on the other end of the line, he can't remember all the numbers. Jamal is coming up against ______.
A) the decay of numerical memory
B) the extinction of auditory traces
C) George Miller's magic number 7, plus or minus 2
D) the limits of procedural memory

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Jamal is experiencing the limitations of his working memory, specifically the phenomenon described by George Miller as "the magic number 7, plus or minus 2," which refers to the average number of items that most people can hold in their short-term memory at one time.

Jamal Is Trying to Buy Something Over the Phone