A participant asked to recall a series of numbers chooses to think of them as years (e.g., 1, 9, 9, 7 becomes "the year I turned 16"). The participant is organizing the information into a memory unit known as a ________.

Social Studies · High School · Mon Jan 18 2021

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The participant is organizing the information into a memory unit known as a "chunk."

  • In cognitive psychology, chunking is a process by which individual pieces of information are bound together into a meaningful whole. This is a common strategy used in memory recall to overcome the limitations of short-term memory by grouping information into larger units.

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