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magical number seven: a standalone construct

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Cognitive psychology

the proposal that immediate memory span and absolute judgment are limited to roughly seven items or chunks, give or take two.

In cognitive psychology, magical number seven refers to the proposal that immediate memory span and absolute judgment are limited to roughly seven items or chunks, give or take two. This meaning comes from Miller (1956) in Psychological Review.[1]

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References

Miller, G. A. (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. Psychological Review, 63(2), 81-97. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0043158

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