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"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" [1] is one of the most highly cited papers in psychology. [2] [3] [4] It was written by the cognitive psychologist George A. Miller of Harvard University's Department of Psychology and published in 1956 in Psychological Review.
George A. Miller suggested that the capacity of the short-term memory storage is about seven items plus or minus two, also known as the magic number 7, [2] but this number has been shown to be subject to numerous variability, including the size, similarity, and other properties of the chunks. [3]
"Meaning in Many: The Symbolism of Numbers," Symbol & Magic in Egyptian Art, by Richard H. Wilkinson, Thames and Hudson, 1994, page 127. ^ "Meaning in Many: The Symbolism of Numbers," Symbol & Magic in Egyptian Art, by Richard H. Wilkinson, Thames and Hudson, 1994, page 131–133. ^ See Hermes Trismegistus.
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Some of the data he refers to falls far outside this range. I've even recall reading a slightly sarcastic analysis of Miller's paper saying 7+-2 should actually be 9+-4 from the data Miller presents. --Ronz 21:03, 7 February 2007 (UTC) The reason you cannot find this result in his paper is that Miller never meant to stipulate a magical number.
In ceremonial magic, a magical formula or a word of power is a word that is believed to have specific supernatural effects. [1] They are words whose meaning illustrates principles and degrees of understanding that are often difficult to relay using other forms of speech or writing.
The legal section of the text lays out many issues spread over 11 ‘clauses’, which contain sets of questions and answers. Each case ends with a question of whether the matter can be resolved by means of sho, meaning ‘dice’. The petitions typically end with the phrase “Do we decide by means of sho or not - how do you command?". [11]
Miller was born on February 3, 1920, in Charleston, West Virginia, the son of George E. Miller, a steel company executive [1] and Florence (née Armitage) Miller. [3] Soon after his birth, his parents divorced, and he lived with his mother during the Great Depression, attending public school and graduating from Charleston High School in 1937.