Chunking (psychology)
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title:
Chunking (psychology)
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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. 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 allowing the working memory to be more efficient. A chunk is a collection of basic units that are strongly associated with one another, and have been grouped toge
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Cognitive psychology process
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)
date created:
2004-08-26T09:55:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T11:21:38Z
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