Miller's magic number
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- Created on: 02-01-23 13:11
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- Miller's magic number - capacity of stm
- People can remember about seven pieces of information + or - 2
- A limitation of ‘chunking’ is that the size of the ‘chunk’ matters
- Miller (1956) reviewed lots of research into the capacity of STM
- We chunk things together to remember them more
- Miller suggested this would also work with letters, numbers, musical notes and words
- Simon (1974) - people have a shorter memory for larger chunks such as 8-word phrases
- Miller's magic number 7 +/-2
- Still shows our STM has a limited capacity
- People have a larger memory for smaller chunks such as 1-syllable words
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