When Wahchumyus first learns to play a new piece of music,he learns it note by note.This makes it hard to play because he has to keep looking at the score.After a while,he starts to put together several notes into musical phrases,so he is able to think of all the notes in that phrase as a single unit.This helps him keep more of the piece in his working memory.Wahchumyus is using a strategy called
A)decalage.
B)chunking.
C)seriation.
D)transitive inference.

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Chunking is the process of grouping individual pieces of information into meaningful larger units or chunks. In this scenario, Wahchumyus is grouping several notes together into musical phrases, allowing him to keep more of the piece in his working memory. This is an example of chunking.

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