If “seven” is the limitation, then chunking is the hack to So much so, it’s often known as “Miller’s Magic Number Seven The information might be words, numbers, locations: it didn’t really matter – most people can remember at least 5-6 “units of information”, and no more than 8-9 “units”, with seven being the most commonly-observed number people could handle. George was a psychologist, and he was referring to the number “seven” which seemed to come up remarkably often as about the limit of the number of discrete pieces of information we can remember at any one time. “I have been persecuted by an integer ”, George Miller wrote, “for seven years this number has followed me round”. We need to go back to George Miller and his “Magic Number Seven”. I’ll share a wealth of handy “trade secrets” for applying this theory to your studies, a treasure-trove of techniques you can use to make memorisation far easier, using learning by chunking.Īll will make your life far easier if you’ve got a lot of information to learn for tests and exams. Read on to discover what chunking is, and to explore the evidence for just how much chunking can improve your capacity to remember things. Supercharge your studies today with our time-saving, grade-boosting “genius” study tips sheet.įor most of us, our memories have their limits!Ĭhunking helps you overcome the natural limitations of your memory, and is therefore a very powerful trick for helping you to learn information and get it into memory. Helping half a million students in 175+ countries every year to study smarter, not harder.
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