... Seven, Plus or Minus Two". This meant that a person's short-term memory (which is equivalent to working memory) could hold from five to nine units of information. Miller in 1956,quoted the following statement to support his claims: "A human requires and organises knowledge of the environment by forming and storing expressions, called chunks. Which are structured collections of the chunks existing at the time of learning" G. A Miller (1956) the Psychological Review Chunking theory has a key assumption that each chunk, which is encoded in the brain, is broken into subparts and processed into meaningful units at the same time. This type of learning involves the use of short term and semantic memory. This is the learner is actively processing information. Since the 1960's, cognitive psychologists such as Newell, Shaw and Simon, 1955-60, have drawn comparisons between computers and human thought as both processes involve manipulating information. Sperling (1960) produced a ...

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