AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The organization of items into familiar or manageable units is called chunking.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chunking: organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically. Iconic Memory: a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second (this phenomenon was studied by Sperling).

Detailed explanation-3: -Another strategy is chunking : you organize information into manageable bits or chunks (Bodie, Powers, & Fitch-Hauser, 2006). Chunking is useful when trying to remember information like dates and phone numbers. Instead of trying to remember 5205550467, you remember the number as 520-555-0467.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chunking Examples Telephone numbers and credit card numbers are typically chunked in groups of three or four digits. When you encounter a phone number (or other familiar grouping) that’s chunked in an unfamiliar way, it can be much harder to remember it.

Detailed explanation-5: -In cognitive psychology, chunking is a process by which individual pieces of an information set are bound together into a meaningful whole.