Practice: Making Chunks

Fortunately, we have control over how we chunk information. We can use this skill when we are learning new information by taking the new information, breaking it into pieces, making associations between the pieces, and then remembering the groups of information put together. This is how musicians can read complicated sheet music, for instance. They are able to chunk the arpeggios and chords and melodies into chunks of information like “G major arpeggio” instead of trying to remember “G, B, D, G” every time they read the sheet music.