Question

One strategy to increase the amount of information that can be held in short-term memory is to group related items together into a single unit. This strategy is called:A)the self-referencing technique.B)chunking.C)clustering.D)long-term potentiation.

Answer 1

The answer is B. Chunking

Step-by-step explanation:

Chunking refers to a process in which pieces of information are separated and then they are grouped. A chunk is considered the different basic familiar units that a person has grouped into his/her memory. Thus, the person can easily retrieve these chunks because they are similar.

It is said that people can create more order cognitive representations of the different elements that are in the chunk because they can easily remember these elements when they are grouped. However, these chunks are usually subjective because they are based on people's perceptions as well as past experiences, but they can be linked to the information.