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20. People remember only four items at once.
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- 1Who wrote the phase “the magical number seven, plus or minus two”?George A. Miller (1956) who wrote a research paper showing people can remember from five to nine things at once.
- 2People are able to hold ____ to ____ things in working memory as long as they aren’t distracted and their processing of information is not interfered with.Three; Four.
- 3People can remember ___% of four to six items in a category.80.
- 4When there were 80 items in the category to remember. What was the percentage remembered?20%
- 5Donald Broadbent (1975) asked people to recall items in different categories. What were some of the examples?The Seven Dwarfs, the seven colors of the rainbow, the countries of Europe, and the names of current shows on TV.
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