According to current research, there is a maximum number of items that younger adults can hold in their short term memory without a retention strategy and this is 3 to 5 items.
The working memory - short term memory - cannot hold a lot of items at once but these number of items will vary with age. Younger people should be able to hold more items.
This was confirmed by current research which shows that a young person can hold a much as 5 items in their working memory and a minimum of 3 items.
Find out more on the short-term memory at https://brainly.com/question/12121626
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