APFCC+-+Miller

APFCC: Miller

 * Theorist**: Miller
 * Study of**: Short term memory displacement theory
 * Year**: 1956

To find out the limited capacity of short term memory
 * Aim:**

The participants were randomly selected form a group of 30 school children aged 15 to 16. This experiment asked the participants t recall 15 number sequences, these sequences consisted of three different lengths of digits from 5 to 9 digits.
 * Procedure:**

He found that we could remember up to 7 items in our short term memory plus or minus two, but this could be increased by chunking the information and creating memory to it, and then you can remember 7 chunks plus or minus 2
 * Findings:**

displacement theory suggest that that there are only a fixed number of 'slots' for such information and that once they are full (capacity is reached) new information will push out old information, and then the information would be lost unless processed into LTM
 * Conclusion:**

That the study was only done on 15 to 16 year olds, this theory may apply to people at different ages.
 * Criticism:**