A participant who is asked to recall a series of numbers chooses to think about the numbers as though they were years (e.g., 1, 9, 9, 7 becomes "The year I turned 16"). The participant is organizing information into the memory unit known as a(n)

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The participant is using chunking, which is the process of organizing information into smaller units (chunks) to improve memory recall. Thinking about the numbers as years is an example of chunking.

A Participant Who Is Asked to Recall a Series of Numbers