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March 28, 2023 by ktangen

Encoding

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When computers were the size of living rooms, paper cards were punched with holes. Each card carried a very limited amount of information. Stacks and stacks of cards were needed to added a few number together or generate a sales report.

Although computer encoding has changed a lot, human encoding remains the same. In order to process information we must input it and, eventually, decode (retrieve it). Here”s how it works.

Here are 5 things we’ll cover:

  • Metacognition
  • Encoding
  • Distinctiveness
  • Encoding Tips

 

Story

Terms

  • One of these things is not like the other”
  • “Right after these messages”
  • acetylcholine
  • acoustic encoding
  • age-dependent memory loss
  • Alzheimer’s
  • anterograde amnesia
  • attention
  • background suppression
  • blocking
  • Broadbent, Donald
  • Cabrera, Derek
  • categorize
  • change blindness
  • closure
  • cocktail party effect
  • connections
  • context
  • contextual distinctiveness
  • distinctions
  • distinctiveness
  • DSRP
  • editing
  • elaboration encoding
  • elaboration mnemonics
  • emotional distinctiveness
  • encoding
  • encoding specificity principle
  • filter theory
  • generate answers-examples
  • genes
  • hippocampus
  • inattentionally blind
  • incomplete circles
  • interactive images
  • interrupted tasks
  • invisible gorilla
  • khaki
  • meaning extraction
  • memory loss
  • metacognition
  • most important first
  • most important last
  • movement
  • nursing-home patients
  • organizing
  • Parkinson’s
  • perspectives
  • physical exercise
  • poisons
  • Pollyanna effect
  • positive things
  • primacy
  • primary distinctiveness
  • prospecting
  • recency
  • reduction mnemonics
  • rehearse
  • relating
  • relationships
  • rewards
  • robust effect
  • ROPES
  • saccades
  • secondary distinctiveness
  • self-referent
  • semantic encoding
  • similarities & differences
  • smoking
  • splitting
  • steady-state information
  • syphilis
  • systems
  • tactile encoding
  • teach others
  • teach yourself
  • texture
  • unresolved chords
  • verbal intelligence
  • vibrations
  • visual encoding
  • visualization
  • von Restorff Effect
  • Zeigarnik Effect

Quiz

1. Self-awareness of how your mind works is:

  • a. systematization
  • b. metacognition
  • c. concentration
  • d. regeneration

2. “Tuning out” inputs that don’t interest us can be seen in the:

  • a. cocktail party effect
  • b. von Restorff effect
  • c. Pollyanna effect
  • d. Zeigarnik effect

3. The chances are about 50/50 that you will notice:

  • a. what others are saying at a cocktail party
  • b. an “invisible gorilla”
  • c. two turtle doves
  • d. your first car

4. Not noticing changes in things we are attending to is:

  • a. inattentional blindness
  • b. perspective blindness
  • c. change blindness
  • d. face blindness

5. The D in Derek Cabrera’s four universal metacognitive skills stands for:

  • a. disengagement
  • b. distinctions
  • c. distortions
  • d. dinosaurs

Answers

1. Self-awareness of how your mind works is:

  • a. systematization
  • b. metacognition
  • c. concentration
  • d. regeneration

2. “Tuning out” inputs that don’t interest us can be seen in the:

  • a. cocktail party effect
  • b. von Restorff effect
  • c. Pollyanna effect
  • d. Zeigarnik effect

3. The chances are about 50/50 that you will notice:

  • a. what others are saying at a cocktail party
  • b. an “invisible gorilla”
  • c. two turtle doves
  • d. your first car

4. Not noticing changes in things we are attending to is:

  • a. inattentional blindness
  • b. perspective blindness
  • c. change blindness
  • d. face blindness

5. The D in Derek Cabrera’s four universal metacognitive skills stands for:

  • a. disengagement
  • b. distinctions
  • c. distortions
  • d. dinosaurs

 

Structural

 

1. Metacognition

Attention

    • Cocktail Party Effect
    • Inattentional Blindness
    • Change Blindness

Encoding Mechanisms

    • Visual Encoding
    • Acoustic Encoding
    • Tactile Encoding
    • Semantic Encoding

2. Encoding

Distortion

    • Little Mermaid

Encoding Specificity Principle

3. Distinctiveness

Primary

    • contextual
    • von Restorff Effect

Secondary

    • 1st time
    • incongruent with past experience

Emotional

    • Zeigarnik Effect
    • closure

4. Encoding Tips

  • clustering
  • blocking
  • categories
  • similarities
  • differences
  • self-referent

5. Decoding Tips

  • Decoding = retrieving
  • 3 types
    • free recall
    • cued recall
    • serial recall
  • 5 Tips
    • incubation
    • retrieval
      • often
      • same order
    • clusters & categories
    • perspective
    • lexical retrieval
      • starts with letter…

Mind Map

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Filed Under: Learning

‘There are two great principles of psychology: people have a tremendous capacity to change, and we usually don’t.”   Ken Tangen

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