AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Dual-coding theory postulates that both sensory imagery and verbal information is used to represent information. Imagery and verbal information are processed differently and along distinct channels in the human mind, creating separate representations for information processed in each channel.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dual coding is the idea of using different types of stimuli to help learners encode information in their brains more effectively, enabling it to be more easily retrieved later on. In the classroom, the main two types of stimuli that are used are visual and verbal.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dual coding suggests that human cognition is divided into two processing systems: visual and verbal. The visual system deals with graphical information processing and the verbal system deals with linguistic processing. These two systems are separate and are activated by different information.

Detailed explanation-4: -In his ‘Dual Coding Theory’ (see Figure 1), Paivio proposes that verbal stimuli – those which come in verbal form (as speech) – and non-verbal stimuli (the rest: received through touch, sight, sound, taste) – are processed in different ways by sensory systems that are in common to them both (Paivio 1986).