Testing of Miller’s Magical Number among Prospective Teachers

Abstract

Memory and forgetting is the key factor of human life. Especially the teachers are very much involved in this condition. Here the researcher going to test the short term memory. This paper is emphasizes upon the limit of the short term memory based upon the millers magic number. A test is conducted upon the population consisting of future teachers in a classroom environment to find out the extent to upto how much the population can remember. 12 words are recited two times and the population is expected to write down the words they remember only after once all the 12 words are recited. The basic analysis is done upon the outcomes of the experiments and the inference and conclusions are derivate.