William is trying to remember his new nine-digit Social Security number, and he does so by thinking of it as three groups of three digits each. William is demonstrating which of the following?
A. Retrieval from working memory
B. The use of chunking
C. The use of maintenance rehearsal
D. Storage in sensory memory
Answer: B
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