The process of taking single items of information and recoding them on the basis of similarity or some other organizing principle.

Combining smaller units of measurement or chunks into larger chunks. (e.g., a seven chunk phone number such as 5-5-5-1-2-1-2 becomes a five chunk number such as 5-5-5-12-12)

A very basic definition is that chunking is a way of organizing information into familiar groupings. This is done with all sorts of information, including numbers, single words, and multiple-word phra [..]

(n) (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units

Organizations or agencies that provide resources and/or services to students, their families, teachers and/or school boards, but are not funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education. They could be fund [..]

The arbitrary creation of larger verbal units, as when a mnemonic system is used to convert a sequence of digits to a single word.

Organizing or breaking down some experience into bigger or smaller pieces. Chunking up involves moving to a larger, more abstract level of information. Chunking down involves moving to a more specific and concrete level of information. Chunking laterally involves finding other examples at the same level of information.

Chunking may refer to:

See “coding & decoding”

When players learn or improve their playing a game by learning not to process the individual pieces or states of the game, but rather thinking in terms of high-level chunks (collections of pieces and [..]

A memorization technique.

A writing technique.