Strategies for Encoding
There are several different ways you can encode information including semantic encoding, spacing effect, serial position effect, self referance effect, organizing information, overlearning, mneumonic device and many more.
Semantic encoding is the process of making meaning out of what is being learned so that it is better encoded. This can be done by instead of memorizing a word, learn it's meaning and then try to remember what the word is. By making meaning out of the word you tend to remember it better, because it makes more connections in your brain as to what it is.
Semantic encoding is the process of making meaning out of what is being learned so that it is better encoded. This can be done by instead of memorizing a word, learn it's meaning and then try to remember what the word is. By making meaning out of the word you tend to remember it better, because it makes more connections in your brain as to what it is.
- The spacing effect is the practice of learning things in a spread out way. This may happen by learning twenty minutes every night for one week. You learn better this way because your brain has more time to memorize the information where as if you cram you're more likely to forget what you have studied in a short period of time.
- Serial position effect is the fact that we as humans tend to remember the things we learn first and last better then what we learn in the middle. To use this to your advantage you may want to study the things you know least about first or last and the material you already know pretty well in the middle of the unknown information. This will help you remember what you need to know without having a negative affect on the thing that is learned in the middle.
- The self reference effect is the process of making connections with what you are learning to yourself. This works if you are trying to memorize many words, and every word you connect with something you may have done in your life. For example the word recital you may remember, because you did ballet as a young child.
- Organizing information is the process of taking what you learn and putting it into different organization tools such as graphic organizers, Venn diagrams, compare and contrast tables and many other different tools. These help you learn in a positive way because they show you parts of what you are learning that you may not have ever seen before.
- Overlearing (See effortful processing tab)
- Mnemonic device is a memory trick that you use to remember some piece of information. For example to memorize north, east, south, west some people like to say never eat soggy waffles. The first letter of all of these words are the same as each other. You may use a first letter acronym or a peg system for mnemonic devices.