User:KYPark/1956
- The Last Question
- Science Fiction Quarterly (November)
- A short story bearing resemblance to some aspects of Frank Tipler's Omega Point Theory
- The Problem of Knowledge
- with Henry W. Riecken and Stanley Schachter
- When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the End of the World
- University of Minnesota Press.
- The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information
- Psychological Review, 63, 81-97 [1]
- ``That essay reviews psychological experiments that discovered people had a hard time remembering more than about 7 unrelated pieces of really dull data all at once. These studies on memorizing nonsense . . . Indeed, the deep point of Miller's paper is to suggest strategies, such as placing information within a context, that extend the reach of memory beyond tiny clumps of data.`` -- Edward Tufte [2]
- ``If the cognitive revolution erupted in 1956, the contextual revolution (at least in psychology) is occurring today.`` -- Jerome Bruner (1990) Acts of Meaning (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) p. 105-6 (more)
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