From the course: Strategies to Learn and Upskill More Effectively
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Reduce complexity: Chunking
From the course: Strategies to Learn and Upskill More Effectively
Reduce complexity: Chunking
- Let's test your memory. Try repeating these letters back to me. Are you ready? H J R V J D F E G H. How many could you remember? The letters were H J R V J D F E G H. I'm guessing you recalled somewhere around six or seven. That's because you can only hold so many things in your short-term memory at once. It's about six for letters and seven for numbers. Let's try again with some different letters. Are you ready? B A T D E S K C A R. How did you do this time? The letters were B A T D E S K C A R. Whether you did better with the second list depends on one critical thing. That thing is whether you noticed the pattern. If you did, this was likely very easy. You just remembered the words, bat, desk, car and spelled them back to me. Breaking things down into meaningful units like this is called chunking and it's a great way to improve your learning. Researchers gave a similar test to a person using numbers instead…
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