Example strategy: clustering
The human brain can efficiently remember around 7 pieces of information at a time. After this, any more information is processed poorly. To get around this, people use the “chunking effect”, or clustering. Clustering is an organizational strategy that allows more information to be remembered by grouping together disparate elements into categories that makes sense to the person. Clustering is important because it has been shown to improve the performance of both children and adults who use it.
Big Sky Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
