Psychology / Unit 6 Psych 0632 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Semantic Encoding
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The idea
Semantic encoding stores information by its meaning and produces the most durable memory of the encoding types.
In practice
A word encoded by whether it fits a sentence is recalled better than one encoded by its appearance.
Where people slip
Depth of processing is the reason, not effort. Meaningful processing can be quick and still outperform.
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