1. The “chunking” THEORIEs
Alree Hiskey and Franny Valour

2. 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 high- information items.

3. 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

4. Principles Short term memory limited 5 to 7 chunks of memory.
Planning Is a fundamental cognitive process
Behavior is hierarchically organized

5. 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

6. 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

7. Citations
Chunking (psychology). Wikipedia, 26 Mar Web. 5 Apr <
Long, Victor & David Snitkof. Chunking Theory. Expertise in Memory, Web. 5 Apr <
Kearsly, Greg Information Processing Theory.  Apr <