AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

STUDYING AND ENCODING MEMORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Chunking refers to
A
getting information into memory through the use of visual imagery
B
the organization of information into meaningful units
C
the unconscious encoding of incidental information
D
the tendency to recognize names we can’t recall
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"Chunking” is the process of grouping different bits of information together into more manageable or meaningful chunks. Do that and you make information clearer and easier to remember for yourself and others.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chunking allows people to take smaller bits of information and combine them into more meaningful, and therefore more memorable, wholes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chunking. Chunking is a strategy in which information is organized into small and meaningful chunks. First, the information is divided into sections and then these sections are remembered as a unit. In this way, information becomes more meaningful and easier to digest.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chunking is the recoding of smaller units of information into larger, familiar units. Chunking is often assumed to help bypassing the limited capacity of working memory (WM).

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