When someone provides his phone number to another person, he usually pauses after the area code and again after the next three numbers. This pattern underscores the importance of which memory principle?

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Rey Jefferson

Social Studies

4 October, 14:29

When someone provides his phone number to another person, he usually pauses after the area code and again after the next three numbers. This pattern underscores the importance of which memory principle?

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Melissa Kline · Answer 1

The answer is chunking.

Explanation:

Chunking is a learning technique that consists in grouping smaller pieces of information into larger groups. A common example is remembering phone numbers: instead of remembering each individual digit, we divide them into groups of three or two.

In the example, the area code is probably one "chunk" of information, and the rest of the number is divided into other groups.