

So, if you wanted to explain to your aunt the directions to your new apartment, you would picture in your mind the landscape, streets and buildings, and then you would select the best words that describe the route so your aunt could find you.ĭecoding is the reverse process of listening to words, thinking about them, and turning those words into mental images.

Encoding and Decoding Encoding refers to the process of taking an idea or mental image, associating that image with words, and then speaking those words in order to convey a message.
