AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Chunking allows people to take smaller bits of information and combine them into more meaningful, and therefore more memorable, wholes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chunking: Organizing information into meaningful units.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The first concept is “chunking” and the capacity of short term memory. Miller (1956) presented the idea that short-term memory could only hold 5-9 chunks of information (seven plus or minus two) where a chunk is any meaningful unit. A chunk could refer to digits, words, chess positions, or people’s faces.