Chunking

• Chunking 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 working memory and allowing the working memory to be more efficient. A chunk is a collection of basic units that are strongly associated with one another, and have been grouped together and stored in a person’s memory. These chunks can be retrieved easily due to their coherent grouping. During the chunking process, the basal ganglia converts a sequence of actions into an automatic routine. it is at the root of how habits form.

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References

• Duhigg, Charles. (2012). The Power of Habit Chapter 1 The Habit Loop How Habits Work (EPub p. 29). New York, NY: Penguin Random House.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)

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