Clustering involves organizing information in memory into related groups.Memoriesare naturally clustered into related groupings during recall fromlong-term memory.
How Does the Clustering Process Work?
Have you ever tried memorizing a long list of words?
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Imagine that you are trying to remember lists of vocabulary words for a biology class.
For example, imagine that you are trying to memorize a long grocery list.
One way of making the information more manageable would be to cluster items into related groups.
Let’s take a look at another example of clustering.
Clustering Methods
How do you decide how to form the different clusters?
While this may be obvious for some lists, it will be less so for others.
Clustering Effects for Memory
Research into memory has found two common types of natural clustering.
