Which of the following provides the best explanation for why your history teacher can remember 14 random historic dates, while you can only recall about 7?

A) Retroactive interference
B) Magic Number
C) Chunking
D) Limited short-term memory capacity


Answer: C

Psychology

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Response is to stimulus as:

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