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GCSE Psychology · key term
Coding information in terms of its meaning.
Used by AQA and OCR
Paper 1
Revise: Memory ProcessesSemantic encoding involves meaning. Knowing what the word ‘elephant’ means, rather than simply remembering its appearance or sound, involves semantic encoding. Understanding a concept lets you explain it in different words while keeping the same meaning.
Paper 2
Representing information in memory according to its meaning.
In an application question, link your answer to the person’s actions: explaining information in their own words suggests semantic encoding because they are processing its meaning.
Distinguish semantic encoding, a way of coding information, from semantic memory, a type of long-term memory.
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