Most people cannot store the following list of letters in short-term memory. G O T O Y O U R B E D R O O M However, if the letters are grouped meaningfully into words, they fit short-term's memory span: Go to your bedroom
This illustrates
A) chunking.
B) backward masking.
C) verbal coding.
D) selective attention.
Answer: A
Rationale: Because the average capacity of short-term memory is 7 "units" of items, one way to store more information is to rearrange smaller units into larger "chunks" of information, a process known as chunking.
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