Our immediate short term memory for new material is limited to roughly ________ units of information.

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Our immediate short term memory, often referred to as working memory, is limited to roughly 7 units of information. This concept was proposed by the cognitive psychologist George A. Miller in his paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" in 1956. He suggested that we can hold about 7 pieces of information (plus or minus 2) in our short term memory at a time.

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