Question

Researchers present adjectives to students followed by questions. The students are asked if the adjectives describe their personality. Which type of encoding is this question designed to prompt?

Answer 1

It sounds like semantic encoding. This basically means teaching a person something that can be applied to some sort of context (hence it describing themselves).

Answer 2

The correct answer is - semantic encoding.

Explanation:

Semantic encoding is a special encoding that encodes special information such as pictures, event or word, is encoded as opposed to the sound of it or visuals of it.

An example of such encoding that is encoded as the sound or vision basis is are - remembering the food by its color or remembering the phone number by their name.

Thus, the correct answer is - semantic encoding.