George Armitage Miller

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/george-armitage-miller

1. When was George Armitage Miller born?
2. When did George Armitage Miller die?
3. What is the 'magical number' that George Armitage Miller discovered about memory?
4. Why did Miller think studying the mind was important?

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1. When was George Armitage Miller born?February 3, 1920
2. When did George Armitage Miller die?July 22, 2012
3. What is the 'magical number' that George Armitage Miller discovered about memory?Miller found that people can hold about 7 ± 2 chunks of information at once in short‑term memory.
4. Why did Miller think studying the mind was important?He believed that to understand human behavior, we need to look inside the mind, not just outside.

Behaviorism: A psychological school of thought emphasizing observable behavior over internal mental states.
Cognitive Psychology: The scientific study of mental processes, including perception, memory, thinking, and language.
Cognitive Science: An interdisciplinary field studying the mind and its processes, drawing from psychology, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy.
Psycholinguistics: The study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable language acquisition and use.