CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Most adults can store between 5 and 9 items in their short-term memory. This idea was put forward by Miller (1956) and he called it the magic number 7. He though that short term memory could hold 7 (plus or minus 2 items) because it only had a certain number of “slots” in which items could be stored.

Detailed explanation-2: -Short-Term Memory: Up to 7 Items, But Highly Volatile. Many psychology experiments have shown that our short-term memory can hold only a limited number of separate items. The average is about 7 items, plus or minus 2, depending on the individual.

Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of short term memory include where you parked your car this morning, what you had for lunch yesterday, and remembering details from a book that you read a few days ago.

Detailed explanation-4: -In experiments using simple stimuli, working memory is often estimated to have a fixed capacity (of approximately three or four items’ worth of information) no matter how long participants are given to encode those items (9).

Detailed explanation-5: -(Working memory) It holds only a few items (research shows a range of 7 +/-2 items) and only lasts for about 20 seconds.