After having spent half a day touring the Art Gallery of Ontario,Emily had seen hundreds of paintings.To maximize her potential for remembering as many paintings as possible,she decides to categorize each painting depending on its artistic style: neoclassical,realistic,romantic,impressionist,abstract,and so on.This method of memorization is called _____ encoding.

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The method of categorizing paintings by artistic style is an example of organizational encoding, where information is structured and organized in a meaningful way to facilitate memory recall. Semantic encoding involves assigning meaning to information, survival encoding involves relating information to survival instincts, and visual imagery encoding involves creating mental pictures of information.

After Having Spent Half a Day Touring the Art Gallery