Examples of chunking in the following topics:
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- Chunking and mnemonics (discussed below) aid in semantic encoding; sometimes, deep processing and optimal retrieval occurs.
- The process of encoding memories in the brain can be optimized in a variety of ways, including mnemonics, chunking, and state-dependent learning.
- Chunking is the process of organizing parts of objects into meaningful wholes.
- Examples of chunking include remembering phone numbers (a series of individual numbers separated by dashes) or words (a series of individual letters).
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- Chunking of information can also lead to an increase in short-term memory capacity.
- For example, it is easier to remember a hyphenated phone number than a single long number because it is broken into three chunks instead of existing as ten digits.
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- Some strategies used in semantic encoding include chunking and mnemonics.