Encodings

than that (During). Also I prefer to call encoding and decoding a message than sending and receiving. Encoding a message means, converting one form of information or message to another form and decoding means interoperating that message from one form to another. There are four theories of communication of encoding and decoding. Production, circulation, distribution and reproduction. I also call them the circuit of communication (Chandler). Production is encoding. Since you talked about…

Human memory has long been a topic of interest to philosophers and scientists, and memory as we scientifically know it today has only been recently established. In fact, the study of human memory dates back to the time of Aristotle. In his book De Anima, Aristotle introduced the concept of tabula rasa - blank slate - as the nature of our minds at birth. He theorized that when we are born, we are devoid of any knowldege or experience - that our minds are completely empty. Memory then, for him, is…

whether sleep depravity truly had effects versus a rested mind. However, the major component that brings the conclusion to question is whether it was a difference between a rested minds or sleep depravity was made unclear by the results of the evening-encoding condition. Both experiments had flaws which the other could be used to validate the others' conclusions making the study invaluable. However, the most sleep we usually need is around eight hours when the most the first group had was six.…

Throughout the history of the United States’ judicial system, eyewitness testimonies — accounts of a crime or accident that involves a witness narrating their firsthand experience of the incident to a court — have been used as primary evidence for courts to indict a defendant since biological evidence may not always be available or easily analyzed (Myers 350). One of the major problems with these testimonies is that it requires perfect recollection of the events so that the courts can piece…

that simply intending to remember something is unlikely to be helpful, unless we translate that intention into an effective elaborative encoding. For example, when preparing for an exam, a good student may make a special effort to form meaningful mental associations among the study materials, whereas the same student may not bother engaging in such elaborative encoding if she is not going to be tested. (p.…

there are three different processes that occur to hold this information: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Encoding is however the information gets into memory storage; while storage is the preservation of this information over time and how it is shown in memory. Retrieval is putting that information to use by pulling it out of storage to recollect the information. For example, if we are listening to a lecture, this is encoding. If we are writing notes or rehearsing the information in our heads,…

Machismo and Marianismo in Latin American Telenovelas It started off like any other Saturday night. My father wasn’t working that day, which meant we would have our cherished family time. “Family time” meant that we’d all get comfortable on our couch, and catch up on all of the telenovelas that my parents were into. Usually, my mother was into the telenovelas that were produced in Turkey or Korea which were later translated into Spanish. However, a new telenovela called Ronca De Oro started…

Levy, D .A. (2008). Conceptual and perceptual similarity between encoding and retrieval contexts and recognition memory context effects in older and younger adults. The Journals of Gerontology, 63(3), 171-175. Danker, J. F., & Anderson, J. R. (2010). The ghosts of brain states past: Remembering reactivates the brain regions engaged during encoding. Psychological Bulletin, 136(1), 87-102. doi:…

Memory is the nervous system’s capacity to retain and retrieve skills and knowledge. Memory allows a person to go back through their brain a take bits and pieces of memory, or knowledge and use them in everyday life. Everyday a person’s brain is encoding all the information that is being thrown at them, to use again later. Whether that memory is used to recant a story, draw up an image you once saw years before, explain something that happened to you to a friend, or even complete a difficult…

storage (Steiger). In stage two, the dreamless sleep occurs and the body is now relaxing. This is when memory encoding starts to begin and consolidation is not occurring at this moment. After that, stages three and four are when SWS is active and synchronised slow waves are found. This is when the body has the most rest (Steiger). The right amount of sleep will have more of the memory encoding process to finish. Finally, REM happens and most of the time the sleep cycle is repeated and restarts…