Chunking Improves Short-Term Memory by

question 146

Multiple Choice

Chunking improves short-term memory by

• A)making large amounts of information more manageable.
• B)converting iconic memory into echoic memory.
• C)removing the meaning from groups of letters.
• D)dividing attention during the encoding process.

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