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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=cognitive_psychology">cognitive psychology</a>, <b>chunking</b> is a process by which small individual pieces of a set of information are bound together to create a meaningful whole later on in memory. The chunks, by which the information is grouped, are meant to improve short-term retention of the material, thus bypassing the limited capacity of <a href="page.php?w=working_memory">working memory</a> and allowing the working memory to be more efficient. A chunk is a collection of basic units that are strongly associated</p><p>
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