By Marisa Murillo
Have you ever wondered how to store information easier in your memory? I have always failed to remember things because I did not simply know how to study memorization. The fact is, I didn’t need to study memorization, but I needed to learn and comprehend the information to actually gain knowledge on certain topics. In high school, many students may not have to study for their exams or quizzes but that all changes in college. College pushes students to study in order to learn the information they will be later tested on and have to apply to their future careers. Dual coding theory is a theory that attempts to explain cognition in terms of two separate yet partly interconnected systems. The two systems can work independently of each other or they can work together in an integrated way, often applying better outcomes. These two systems include a verbal system specialized for dealing with language and a non-verbal system for representing and processing knowledge about objects and events. Dual coding has a lot to deal with the concreteness of information. The theory is known to predict the information that is being dually encoded should be remembered approximately twice as well as information likely to be singly encoded. The best study method for any student is the cued recall of information and specifically associated with this theory is the conceptual peg hypothesis. Students can create questions or simple quizzes after lectures to better learn the information through recall for a better knowledge of the information in the future.