These processes can be classified into classificational, symbolic, and analytical. The conceptual processes define, analyze and classify places, people or things including abstract ones in the encoding process.

The creation of a visual representational meaning proposes the space-based model for analysis centered in the placement of objects within the semiotic space of memory.

The visual representational meaning of the memory stages conveys the relationship between the participants and the depicted structuring. As a result, psychologists are progressively acknowledging that it is imperative to integrate images in the texts and comprehension as it helps the readers and viewers to make meaning faster. For instance, an active mind is capable of remembering visual images consequently having both text and images enables one to analyze the pictures. Internal influences are personal feelings and thought that includes self-concept, motivation, attitudes, emotions, and perceptions.īesides, these factors are directly linked to internal and external interacting social aspects that control the pattern of thought and expressed feelings. Memory process is complicated, dynamic, multi dimensional process, and is generally influenced by two factors, that is, internal influences and external influences. The declarative memory is further divided into episodic memory and semantic memory that controls responses to past experiences and events, and concepts and facts respectively. The process of encoding, storage and retrieval is illustrated in the diagram below. The conscious or explicit memory is associated with the declarative responses such as memory of events and facts. For instance, the brain uses the procedural memory to encode procedural skills and tasks that an individual is involved in. It is often associated with procedural memory that activates the skills and tasks. The implicit category is defined by the unconscious memory of an individual. It is divided into explicitly and implicit memory. The most active memory is the long term memory that operates across one’s life time. Short term memory is often referred to as the working memory in human beings. For instance, smell may trigger an instant reflection.

Reflectively, the sensory memory is activated in less than one second by a stimulus. This process is defined by sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory. The main stages of memory encompass encoding, storage and retrieval.

Examples of encoding in psychology