Organizing individual bits of information into higher-order units can increase the amount of information that can be held in short-term memory. This strategy is called
A)the recency effect.
B)encoding.
C)the serial position effect.
D)chunking.

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Chunking involves grouping individual bits of information into larger, meaningful units, which can increase the capacity of short-term memory. The other options are not directly related to this strategy. The recency effect refers to the tendency to remember items at the end of a list, encoding refers to the process of converting information into a form that can be stored in memory, and the serial position effect refers to the tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than those in the middle.

Organizing Individual Bits of Information into Higher-Order Units Can Increase