One strategy to increase the amount of information that can be held in short-term memory is to group related items together into a single unit. This strategy is called:
A) the self-referencing technique.
B) chunking.
C) clustering.
D) long-term potentiation.

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Chunking is a mnemonic strategy that involves grouping related items together into a single unit, which reduces the amount of information that needs to be remembered and increases the capacity of short-term memory. The other options are not relevant to this strategy.

One Strategy to Increase the Amount of Information That Can