A participant is asked to recall a series of numbers, and the participant 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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In this scenario, the participant is grouping the numbers into meaningful units (years) to make them easier to remember. This is an example of chunking, which is a memory strategy where information is organized into smaller, more meaningful units. A sentence refers to a group of words that expresses a complete thought, an image refers to mentally visualizing something, and a package is not a recognized memory unit.

A Participant Is Asked to Recall a Series of Numbers