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my memory span was shortest for similar sounding letters. Research suggests that this occurs because similar sounds tend to blend together and form a single sound, making it harder to distinguish individual elements. Additionally, there may be an effect of proactive interference involved here; having recently processed similar sounding stimuli makes recalling later similar stimuli more difficult due to the overlap in information between them. The chapter states that an interesting application of this phenomenon can be observed when people enter phone numbers into their mobile devices or call recipients directly by pressing the corresponding buttons on their keypad. The same seven-digit number can often be converted into words or phrases which helps with remembering it, as most people have greater recollection capabilities for words than digits. Therefore, using one's own creative ways of converting numbers into memorable words or phrases can help improve memory recall performance. For example, if asked to remember the phone number 929-555-1234 one might convert it into “WINE BELLS 12” (9 = WINE, 2 = BELLS and 3 = 12). By doing so they would now be able to associate specific sounds (or images) with each item in the sequence thus making memorization easier and faster compared to just relying on digits alone without context clues attached to them. This technique works best when used consistently; once all numbers have been associated with corresponding meaningful words/phrases they become much easier to remember even over longer periods of time compared simply memorizing digits alone without any additional contextual tools utilized during encoding process such as visualization or associative linking etc.. Overall my results mapped onto what was expected; I had greater memory recall performance for dissimilar sounding letters compared than for those which sounded alike - indicating that differentiating elements in complex tasks helps improve our ability to retain information over time as well as aiding us better recall this data should we need it again at some point down line (e.g., recalling a phone number). Furthermore my results suggest that finding creative ways such as converting numeric sequences like phone numbers into meaningful word associations can also aid us significantly in both short term and long term memorization endeavors; by providing extra contextual cues these techniques provide us additional cues which make encoding process easier thus improving overall memory performance outcomes for such tasks moving forward too

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  My results indicate that my memory span was longest when the stimulus sequence consisted of dissimilar sounding letters. This is in line with what has been expected, as studies have shown that people are typically able to remember and recall more items associated with a given task when items are distinct from each other. By contrast,