You Give Your Friend Instructions About What to Buy for a Party

Multiple Choice

You give your friend instructions about what to buy for a party by quickly rattling off fifteen unrelated grocery store items. Then to check whether your friend got all the information, you ask him to repeat the grocery list back to you. Based on the "magic number" identified by George Miller, you should expect that your friend will recall about __________ items.

A) two
B) fifteen
C) four
D) seven