ENCODING

Question 1

Encoding

Answer 1

Getting information into memory.

Question 2

Automatic processing

Answer 2

Automatic and happens without our awareness (space, time, frequency).

Question 3

Effortful processing

Answer 3

Requires extra encoding effort called elaboration to make the memory useful.

Question 4

Rehearsal

Answer 4

(conscious repetition) is the conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage

Question 5

Semantic Encoding

Answer 5

encoding of meaning
including meaning of words

Question 6

Acoustic Encoding

Answer 6

encoding of sound
especially sound of words

Question 7

Visual Encoding

Answer 7

encoding of picture images

Question 8

Rosy retrospection

Answer 8

Visual encoding - recalling the high points while forgetting the mundane (ex. DISNEY)

Question 9

Peg-word system

Answer 9

Visual encoding - “one is a bun, two is a shoe, three is a tree, four is a door” –requires you to visualize a jingle.

Question 10

Mnemonics

Answer 10

Visual encoding - memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices

Question 11

Hierarchies

Answer 11

Visual encoding - few broad concepts divided and subdivided into narrower concepts.