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In cognitive psychology, chunking is a process by which small individual pieces of a set of information are bound together to create a meaningful whole later on in memory. [1] The chunks, by which the information is grouped, are meant to improve short-term retention of the material, thus bypassing the limited capacity of working memory and ...
Chunking is a memory strategy used to maximize the amount of information stored in short term memory in order to combine it into small, meaningful sections. By organizing objects into meaningful sections, these sections are then remembered as a unit rather than separate objects.
Later research on short-term memory and working memory revealed that memory span is not a constant even when measured in a number of chunks. The number of chunks a human can recall immediately after presentation depends on the category of chunks used (e.g., span is around seven for digits, around six for letters, and around five for words), and even on features of the chunks within a category.
Chunking is the process of breaking down numbers into smaller units to remember the information or data, this helps recall numbers and math facts. [64] An example of this chunking process is a telephone number; this is chunked with three digits, three digits, then four digits.
Chunking has also proved to be a useful strategy for retaining information. [15] Chunking is the process of grouping together individual items of similarity. By attaching a new name to these groups and remembering the name rather than each item, the amount of information remembered has shown to improve significantly. [ 15 ]
Chunking is the process of grouping pieces of information together into “chunks”. [4] This allows for the brain to collect more information at a given time by reducing it to more-specific groups. [4] With the processes of chunking, the external environment is linked to the internal cognitive processes of the brain. [4]
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For example, a person wishing to memorize a long sequence of numbers can break the sequence up into chunks of three, allowing them to remember more of the numbers. Similarly, this is how many in North America memorize telephone numbers, by breaking them up into the three sections: an area code, followed by a three-digit number and then a four ...