Coding

• DEFINITON= how information is processed to get into the store

  • semantic= meaning
  • acoustic= sound
• TYPES OF MEMORY

  • SENSORY REGISTER= information gathered from the senses
  • how we encode: from the 5 senses
  • STM= memory from the immediate past
  • how we encode: acoustic
  • LTM= memory from the past
  • how we encode: semantic
• RESEARCH ON CODING IN STM

  1. Baddeley 1966= gave ppts 6 letter sequences to remember, some sounded the same some didn't, and letters that didn't sound the same were remembered the best, shows STM uses acoustic coding.

  RESEARCH ON CODING IN LTM

  1. Baddeley 1966= gave ppts lists of semantically similar and dissimilar words, he waited 20 minutes before the recall, the recall was best for dissimilar words, shows LTM uses semantic coding as the words were muddled due to similar meaning.