PSYCH-UA 25 Lecture Notes - Psychological Review
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The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. D: various absolute judgment and short term memory tasks with human subjects, measuring capacity limits in amount of items able to be discriminated or correctly coded in short term memory. A: understanding human channel capacity limits has implications for understanding improving various metrics of human performance on cognitive tasks. F: in both absolute judgment tasks and short term memory tasks, our channel capacity limits is. I: channel capacity limits impose severe limitations on the amount of information we perceive, process, and are able to remember.