When Wahchumyus first learns to play a new piece of music, he learns it note by note. This makes it hard to play because he has to keep looking at the score. After a while, he starts to put together several notes into musical phrases, so he is able to think of all the notes in that phrase as a single unit. This helps him keep more of the piece in his working memory. Wahchumyus is using a strategy

called

A) decalage.
B) chunking.
C) seriation.
D) transitive inference.


B

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