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Miller's Magic Number - Memory - Psychologist World
Miller's Magic Number
How much humans remember
In 1956, Harvard University-based psychologist George A Miller
published a paper in journal Psychology Review that would give a fascinating
insight into human memory and have implications far beyond the field of psychological
research and impact on our everyday lives in way many people don't realize.
Miller was troubled for several years by the invasion of numbers
- or specifically, integers - in his life. He set about to research just how
much we can remember in our short-term memory. The widely-accepted multi-store
model of memory acknowledges seperate stores of infroamtion in our memory
that take the form of a short and long-term memory. As we remember with ease
early childhood experiences, it's clear that the long term memory has a vast
capacity that's difficult to measure in terms of capacity (how much can be stored)
and duration, as it lasts a lifetime. The short term memory on the other hand
is more limited, and Miller investigated its capacity.
Miller found that the short-term memory of different people varies,
but found a strong case for being able to measure short-term memory in terms
of chunks. A chunk can be a digit in part of a telephone phone number
(but not a telephone number in a list of telephone numbers) or a name or some
other single unit of information. His research lead him to discover a Magic
Number Seven: most of the participants in his experiments were able to remember
seven +- two chunks of information in their short term memory.
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