Psychology / Unit 6 Psych 0636 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Acoustic Encoding
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The idea
Acoustic encoding stores information by its sound.
In practice
A phone number held by repeating it silently is being encoded acoustically.
Where people slip
Acoustic encoding is the shallowest of the three and the most vulnerable to interference from similar sounds.
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