How we say it has nothing to do with whether or not it is a chunk. What matters is whether or not it is a meaningful unit in LTM, as your own examples illustrate. As the year in which Wundt established his Psych lab, 1879 is probably a meaningful chunk for most of us. For the general public, it probably would not be. The discussion in Miller's paper under the heading "Recoding" explains this fairly well:
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Miller/ Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 10/24/06, Herb Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Subject: is 1879 a chunk? >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:24:04 -0000 >X-Message-Number: 27 > >Hopefully,the chunking of info is one way to extend the capacity of >STM and 1879 would appear to be such > Maybe I'm misreading it but for LTM 1879 is a unit of significance However for STM, 18-79 is two chunks of information. we don't typically say it as the single unit of 1,000-800-70-9 We say "18-79". Thus parsing it into two chunks of information. Like wise phone numbers are not 7 or 10 chunks if information by usually 3 or 4 chunks. In my own case, my office phone is "five one two-two two three- seven seven-four six". That's used to get it into STM for those familiar, 512 is already in LTM as representing Central Texas. Those even closer know that 223 is Austin Community College. For those closer still, they have stored in LTM that suffixes starting with 7 means the Highland Business Center campus. So for this last group, to manage STM they just listen for the 7 7- 4 6. But that's just my opinion...or is it? -- Herb Coleman,Director Instructional Computing and Technology Adjunct Professor of Psychology Austin Community College Highland Business Center 5930 Middle Fiskville Rd. Austin, TX 78752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512-223-7746 ************************************************* "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover" -Mark Twain or put more simply "I will go for my shots and not die wondering." -Alicia Molik, Australian Tennis Player ************************************************* --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
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