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Introduction: Does organisation aid memory? One reason that studying memory and organisation may be interesting is because the area was neglected, up until the 1990's, when psychologists became interested in how an 'enormously important but complex facility operates in people' after being stimulated by the attempts to provide information about computer systems and how information is organised.( R.Gross, Hodder and Sloughton) One theory in relation to memory suggests that organisation may occur at two separate stages of memory. Meyer said 'to remember is to have organised' and suggested that organisation either occurs at storage or at retrieval. Meyer suggested that at storage organisation serves to reduce the amount of material to be remembered and does this by grouping it hierarchically or by chunking it (putting it into chunks to remember).At retrieval he argued that organised items have greater uniqueness and therefore more retrieval routes assocciated with them.This suggests that organisation aids...

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