First, preemptive and preventive uses of force are often justified by claiming either that there is substantial risk of a future attack or that it is difficult to ascertain how dangerous the target is.
Short-Term Memory: Up to 7 Items, But Highly Volatile. Many psychology experiments have shown that our short-term memory can hold only a limited number of separate items. The average is about 7 items, plus or minus 2, depending on the individual. You can easily confirm this by reading someone a series of words that have no connection with one another, then asking this person to repeat them.
It won't help get the information into long term memory, but it will help keep it in short term memory a little longer. 2) Slots - STM seems to be divided into slots - to be precise, STM has 7 slots, each one capable of holding one piece of information.