Bower 1969 Chunking

Abstract
The study is Bower 1969 chunking. The aim of the story was to show the effectiveness of chunking. Participants were asked to memorize 12 list 10 unrelated words that were organizing. This experiment was to see how chunking was used to increase the capacity of STM. Participants were showed a letter sequence. The independent variable was chunking and the dependent variable was how many letters the participants can remember. The conclusion of this experiment showed that participants memorize the letters in an organized way. Participants in the story group recalled 90% of the words by chunking. The control group recalled only 10% of the words. Bower study shows people can memorize organizes thing by chunking. Our experiment looked at how
The short term memory can only hold up to 7 different I items at once, but without rehearsing they will disappear in 15 - 20. But chunking helps people to memories 40 different things at once. It helps people to remember relatively long information easier, particularly used to remember for a short pried of time. Chunking works by taking long strings or information and putting them in to smaller groups. Chunking is also more than grouping items in a group it also turns it in to it one unite. Covet, f and Simon, H.a. (1998) did a experiment called expert chess memory: revisiting the chunking hypothesis. In the experiment there were two subjects, a beginner chess player and a expert chess player. In the first trial they were asked to reproduce what they saw for 5 minutes. The expert chess player got 90% correct on the first try and the beginners only got 40% correct. In the second trial the experimenter places the chess pieces in random order and asked the subject to reproduce what they saw. The results showed that the expert chess player just did poorly as the bingers. What the experimenters found out that the expert players would chunk the pieces that they were familiar with and it was easier for them in the first trial but not the