If i was to sort the months of the year in ascending order alphabetically, which month would come first.

question 12 options:

january

october

april

november

The answer is choice b

Is this the whole problem or

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)