AP Psychology Discussion - 2011

<p>@princesssparkle - You probably won’t get the point for chunking, sorry. You don’t need to mention mnemonics because that is only one method of chunking, but you do need to mention that you are using some method of grouping the information together.</p>

<p>Here’s what Barron’s says about chunking:</p>

<p>“Our capacity in short-term memory is limited on average to around seven items, but this limit can be expanded through a process called chunking. If you want to remember a grocery list with 15 items on it, you should chunk, or group, the items into no more than seven groups. Most mnemonic devices, memory aids, are really examples of chunking.”</p>

<p>If you feel as though you discussed chunking in a similar light, you should be fine, but if you did not, then I wouldn’t expect the point.</p>

<p>@314159265 - Not sure why you repeated me saying virtually the same thing, but okay.</p>