Before going to the grocery store, you think about all the things you need to buy in terms of the meals you will be creating for the next couple of days. For example, instead of trying to remember 'milk, bread, eggs, vanilla' you just think of 'French toast'. Which term is used for this method of maintaining information in short-term memory?

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This method is called chunking, which involves grouping or categorizing information into smaller, more manageable units. In this case, the items are grouped together as "French toast" in order to make them easier to remember.

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