PSYCH 140M- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)
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The magical number seven plus or minus two- some limits on our capacity for processing info. Capacity of stm is 7 (word span) _+/-2 items for most people though some people can remember 10 or more or as few as only. Chunking- organizing info into larger more manageable and familiar units. A chunk can be a word, phrase, sentence, or any other info. That we can put together to assign a single meaning or idea. Ex) its difficult to remember this sequence of 12 letters- However, we can rearrange these things into 4 meaningful units. When we chunk things we chunk it into things that are familiar to us. This sequence would be too much for stm (16 digits). *chunks must be meaningful and familiar to you. Grouping items in 3"s leaving small gap in between groups is best. Grouping items into 2"s is (cid:374)e(cid:454)t (cid:271)est ex) phone number (949-824-15-00)
