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. You should expect that your friend will recall about ____ items.
It has been discovered that people averagely recall easily the first seven items on a list than all the items on the list. The items that would be recalled on the list is seven.