It Is Believed That Chunking Enhances Memory By

question 177

Multiple Choice

It is believed that chunking enhances memory by:

• A)enhancing the associations between concepts.
• B)widening the information-processing bottleneck due to the limited capacity of short-term memory.
• C)reducing the amount of raw information that must be encoded into memory.
• D)reorganizing information into more meaningful units that are more easily encoded in and retrieved from long-term memory.

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