Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order. She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE. This tactic is called
A) cueing.
B) shadowing.
C) rote rehearsal.
D) chunking.
Answer: D
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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