How many things can be stored in the short term memory?
- 10-15.
- 5 - 9.
- 0 - 5.
Explanation
Short-term memory holds only a handful of items at once, conventionally about seven plus or minus two, giving a range of roughly five to nine. Chunking related information helps fit more within this narrow span. Trying to retain more than this without aids or rehearsal leads to items being dropped.
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Community Comments (2)
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dimky Posts: 514 09.07.2013 / 19:32
Hello.
Yes. Remember 7+/-2 rule.
Yes. Remember 7+/-2 rule.
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MridulDev Posts: 48 15.07.2013 / 12:28
Indeed, and here's a little more info :
Short term memory receives a proportion of the information received into sensory
stores, and allows us to store information long enough to use it (hence the idea of
‘working memory’). It can store only a relatively small amount of information at one
time, i.e. 5 to 9 (often referred to as 7 ±2) items of information, for a short duration,
typically 10 to 20 seconds. As the following example shows, capacity of short term
memory can be enhanced by splitting information in to ‘chunks’ (a group of related
items).
Reference Material: CAP 715
Short term memory receives a proportion of the information received into sensory
stores, and allows us to store information long enough to use it (hence the idea of
‘working memory’). It can store only a relatively small amount of information at one
time, i.e. 5 to 9 (often referred to as 7 ±2) items of information, for a short duration,
typically 10 to 20 seconds. As the following example shows, capacity of short term
memory can be enhanced by splitting information in to ‘chunks’ (a group of related
items).
Reference Material: CAP 715
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