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According to George Miller's magic number seven, why do we have a limited capacity for storing information in short-term memory?
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According to George Miller's magic number seven, why do we have a limited capacity for storing information in short-term memory?
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Short-term memory has a limited capacity of about seven items, due to the span of immediate memory that humans are capable of holding simultaneously.
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