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The coding processes of memory refers to the
ways that information may be represented in memory. Events in the world
strike our senses and may be will perceived, but the mental operations
that ensue determine whether the events will be remembered. Three types
of coding processes will be discussed due to the relevancy of the topics.
Mental imagery is a way for people to convert information while they study
it. In the levels of processing approach, people are directed to think
about different aspects of events so that attention is directed to superficial
properties of the events or their meaning and memory is tested later. The
other process lies in the memory organization. The study of memory organization
is concerned both with how knowledge is organized and with how people use
their knowledge to encode new information in memory. The study of the coding
processes is central to the study of human memory and ramifies through
most other topics such as whether some bit of information can be retrieved
from memory depends on how it was encoded when it was learned.
Imagery Imagery generally are used to refer to those concrete, perceptual, and usually visual modes of thought which appear to represent the physical world relatively directly. These are clearly distinguishable |