Question 1 Report
A paramedic trainer gives trainees a list of emergency equipment to learn. One group receives the items as a random list and another receives them grouped under headings such as "airway" and "wound care". Later, all trainees recall the equipment without headings.
(a) Name the memory strategy used by the second group. [1]
(b) Explain why this strategy could improve recall. [2]
(a) Chunking / organisation into categories [1] (b) Grouping reduces the number of separate units that must be held in short-term memory [1]; category headings provide retrieval cues for related items [1]. [2]
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