Organizing Individual Bits of Information into Higher-Order Units Can Increase

question 63

Multiple Choice

Organizing individual bits of information into higher-order units can increase the amount of information that can be held in short-term memory. This strategy is called

• A)the recency effect.
• B)encoding.
• C)the serial position effect.
• D)chunking.

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Definitions:

Population Means

The average value of a particular characteristic in the entire population.

Sampling Distribution

A sampling distribution is the probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample.

Independent Samples

Two or more groups of data that are collected from unrelated, separate populations with no paired or matched elements between them.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, used to estimate certain types of parameters.