Psychology GCSE
Coding
What Coding means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Coding
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The form in which information is held, with sensory memory coding modality-specifically, short-term memory tending to code acoustically and long-term memory tending to code semantically.
Topics that use Coding
- Memory (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Capacity
- Classifying examples by content
- Context-dependent memory
- Distinguishing stores by feature
- Duration
- Effect of delay
- Effort after meaning
- Encoding
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