... ability of someone remembering it. An example of this would be the process of chunking, which is the method of grouping a row of numbers or letters into sections (chunks). E.g. 9 8 7 3 7 3 8 7 3 9 8 9 8 7 - 3 7 3 - 8 7 3 - 9 8 3 Unchunked Chunked George Miller (1956) discovered this method does increase the capacity of the STM along with many other things, Brown and Peterson (1958-59) discovered prevention of rehearsal will interfere with remembering certain information such as a phone numbers. These methods and theory's created by people give us more understanding on how our brain works and why we are the way we are. The aim of the experiment is to investigate the capacity of the short-term memory, using the process of chunking. The experimental hypothesis is the participants in Condition 1 (chunked numbers) will recall more information ...

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