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

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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


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Shock Plate

A device used in psychological experiments to deliver an electric shock to an animal or human subject.

Obedience

The act of following orders or directions from a figure of authority.

Milgram Experiment

A psychological experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s to study obedience to authority figures, where participants thought they were administering electric shocks to another person.

Confederate

In psychological experiments, a confederate is an individual who seems to be a participant but is actually in on the experiment, helping the researcher manipulate the situation or observe participants' behaviors.

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