Chunking

Chunking is the grouping of separate bits of information into a chunk of information.
=== For example: if you were to read a sequence of letters such as ‘D N V R C E W V D C S V’, and then you were ask to recall them, you would be unable to remember the letters unless you have an exceptional short term memory. However we are able to remember the letters if we chunk them together like this, ‘NSW VCR VCE DVD’, because we are familiar with these acronyms. ===

=== Some restaurants have waiters where they take orders without a notepad and must remember the orders even from large groups of people. They are required to chunk the information they are being told, in order to remember the order to report to the chef’s. === === Another example of a chunking situation is telephone numbers that grouped into four numbers per group, or perhaps car registration plates that are grouped by numbers and letters in order for the information to fit within the capacity of our short term memory. ===