After learning that the Redskins won last night's football game, Chris said that he knew all along that they were going to win. This best illustrates:

Dis an orderly way to conduct research 

Psychologists often talk of the magical number "7" - so it is generally assumed that we can keep 7 (more or less, so 5-9 is the correct answer) items in our short term memory - we know this as a result of many experiments.

we can increase this by chunking, so for example "7 8 9 5 3" is harder to remember than "78 95 3" - try it yourself!

the answer is a)