The “chunking” THEORIEs
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THE “CHUNKING” THEORIES
Alree Hiskey and Franny Valour
George A Miller
Born February 3, 1920
Created the “chunking” theory.
Miller said that his theory should increase short
term memory for low information content by
recoding them into a smaller amount of highinformation items.
Definitions
Chunk- a collection of elements having strong
associations with elements of other chunks of
information
Chunks
can be made of any groups of information
Are the original element of all subsequent theories of
memory
General theory of human cognition
Principles
Short term memory limited 5 to 7
chunks of memory.
Planning Is a fundamental cognitive
process
Behavior is hierarchically organized
How to acquire “chunks”
Computation Model: to become an expert in a
field, information must be learned by getting a
large database of chunks organized by a
discrimination net
Chunkin’
Makes better use of Short term memory with low
information content by making the brain recode it into
a smaller amount of high information content items
The recoding turns the information into long term
memory using perception and meaning
Citations
Chunking (psychology). Wikipedia, 26 Mar. 2011. Web. 5 Apr. 2011
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)>.
Long, Victor & David Snitkof. Chunking Theory. Expertise in Memory, 2005.
Web. 5 Apr. 2011 <http://snitkof.com/cg156/chunkingtheory.php>.
Kearsly, Greg Information Processing Theory. 2011. 5 Apr. 2011
<http://tip.psychology.org/index.html>.