Intrapersonal Communication Activities: Representing Experience.

Designed to help students observe and learn about how they individually represent experience and assign meaning, the exercises in this paper are intended for use in courses on intrapersonal communication or in course units on cognitive aspects of communication. The journal exercise is described in terms of its goals, approaches to it, and includes some sample entries from student journals. Coding analysis (focusing on how a stimulus is represented in memory and the attributes that play a role in retention and retrieval) is the subject of exercises dealing with verbal, semantic, and visual coding. The verbal coding exercise contains goals, approach, materials, and an analysis. The paper presents an introduction, instructions, and a discussion with the visual coding exercise. Depth of processing (the idea that the more deeply we process stimuli, the more likely we are to remember those stimuli) is the subject of an exercise focusing on structural versus semantic analysis, with an introduction, goals, approach, as well as all materials necessary for the exercise. A 10-item bibliography concludes the paper. (SR)