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Finals Flashcards

1
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Cognitive Psychologists would love to ____ directly how each of us represents knowledge.

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Observe

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A possibility for observing how we represent knowledge in our minds is the ____ approach

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Rationalist

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Refers to facts that can be STATED; knowing that

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Declarative Knowledge

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Knowledge of procedures that can be IMPLEMENTED; knowing how

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Procedural Knowledge

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The picture is similar to the real-world object it represents. It provides concrete information such as shape and relative size.

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Analogous

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The relationship between the word and what it represents is simply arbitrary

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Symbolic Representation

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Some cognitive psychologists have suggested that we have some _____ that resemble pictorial, analogous images, and other _______ that are highly symbolic, like words

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Mental Representations

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Are a good way to show CONCRETE and SPATIAL information in a way that is similar to what they show

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Picture

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Make it easy to express ABSTRACT and CATEGORICAL information in a way that is symbolic of what the words mean.

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WORDS

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Mental representation of things that are not currently seen or sensed by the sense organs

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Imagery

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Controlling pain and overcoming psychological problems, such as phobias and other anxiety disorders

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Guided Imagery Techniques

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Imagery to think about various structures and processes and to solve problems in their chosen fields

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Imagery in Various Fields

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By means of imagining the details of the tasks in the correct order so as to remember all the details involved, brain-damaged patients can wash dishes or take medication.

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Occupational Therapy

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People use both pictorial (ANALOG) and verbal codes (SYMBOLIC) for representing information in their mind

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Dual-code theory

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Types of codes

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Symbolic Code
Analog Codes

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Is a code that has been chosen RANDOMLY to stand for something that DOES NOT PERCEPTUALLY RESEMBLE what is being represented.

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Symbolic Code

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17
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Are codes that RESEMBLE THE OBJECTS they are representing.

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Analog Codes

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18
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Our mental representations more closely resemble the abstract form of a ____

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Proposition

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19
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Is the meaning underlying a particular relationship among concepts: [Relationship between elements] ([Subject element)][Object element]

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Proposition

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According to the ____ hypothesis, we represent and use visual imagery in a way that is functionally equivalent (strongly analogous) to that for physical percepts.

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functional equivalence

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21
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Our ____ of images and our ___ across images CORRESPOND to those of physical objects and percepts

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Mental Transformation
Mental Movements

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The ____ among elements of a visual image are ANALOGOUS to those relations in actual physical space

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Spatial Relations

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23
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Can be used to generate information that was not explicitly stored during encoding

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Mental Images

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The construction of mental image is ANALOGOUS to the construction of?

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Visually Perceptible Figures.

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Is functionally EQUIVALENT to visual perception in terms of the processes of the visual system used for each

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VIsual Imagery

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Mental rotation involves ____ an object’s visual mental image

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Rotationally Transforming

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Mentally zooming IN or OUT to perceive details about a mental image

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Image Scaling

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The FURTHER away from each other the objects were, the LONGER it took participants to scan from one object to the other

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IMAGE SCANNING

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A person asked to imagine a scene and then describe it ignores half of the imagined scene

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Representational Neglect

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30
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A person ignores half of his or her visual field

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Spatial Neglect

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31
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The use of an organized means of combining words in order to communicate with those around us.

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Language

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32
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The psychology of our language as it interacts with the human mind. It considers both production and comprehension of language

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Psycholinguistics

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33
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Four areas of study have contributed greatly to an understanding of psycholinguistic

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Linguistics
Neurolinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics

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34
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The study of language structure and change

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Linguistics

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The study of the relationships among the brain, cognition, and language

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Neurolinguistics

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36
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The study of the relationship between social behavior and language (Caroll, 1986)

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Sociolinguistics

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37
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The study of language via computational methods

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Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics

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38
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Properties of Language

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Communicative
Arbitrarily Symbolic
Regularly Structured
Structured at Multiple Levels
Generative, Productive
Dynamic

39
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Language permits us to communicate with one or more people who share our language

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Communicative

40
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Language creates an arbitrary relationship between a symbol and what it represents: an idea, a thing, a process, a relationship, or a description.

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Arbitrarily Symbolic

41
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Language has a structure; only particularly patterned arrangements of symbols have meaning, and different arrangements yield different meanings.

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Regularly Structured

42
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The structure of language can be analyzed at more than one level (e.g., in sounds, meaning units, words, and phrases.)

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Structured at Multiple Levels

43
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Within the limits of a linguistic structure, language users can produce novel utterances. The possibilities for creating new utterances are virtually limitless.

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Generative, Productive

44
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Languages constantly evolve

45
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Basic Components of Words

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Phoneme
Morpheme
Lexicon

46
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smallest unit of speech sound that can be used to distinguish one utterance in a given language from another

47
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The next level of the hierarchy after the phoneme

48
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Are the words that convey the bulk of the meaning of a language

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Content Morphemes

49
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Add detail and nuance to the meaning of the context morphemes or help the content morphemes fit the grammatical context.

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Function Morphemes

50
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The entire set of morphemes in a given language or in a given person’s linguistic repertoire

51
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The study of meaning in a language

52
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One or more phonemes begin while other phonemes still are being produced

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Coarticulation

53
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The process of trying to separate the continuous sound stream, into distinct words

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Speech Segmentation

54
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Although the speech sounds, we actually hear comprise a continuum of variations in sound waves, we experience speech sound categorically

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Categorical Perception

55
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We use the movements of the speaker’s vocal tract to perceive what he says

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Motor Theory of Speech Perception

56
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Refers to the assertion that speakers of different languages have differing cognitive systems and that these different cognitive systems influence the ways in which people think about the world.

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Linguistic Relativity

57
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Is sometimes referred to as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, named after the two men who were most forceful in propagating it, Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf

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Linguistic-relativity hypothesis

58
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people who can speak two languages

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Bilinguals

59
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People who can speak only one language

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Monolinguals

60
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A second language is acquired in addition to a relatively well developed first language

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Additive Bilingualism

61
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Elements of a second language replace elements of the first language

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Subtractive Bilingualism

62
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Suggest that two languages are represented in just one system or brain region

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Single System Hypothesis

63
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Suggest that two languages are represented somehow in separate systems of the mind

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Dual-System Hypothesis

64
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____ is not a certain outcome of linguistic contact between different language groups

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Bilingualism

65
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A regional variety of a language distinguished by features such as vocabulary, syntax, and pronunciation.

66
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The verbal slips reflect some kind of unconscious processing that has psychological significance

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Freudian Slips

67
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People tend to make various kinds of slips in their conversations (Fromkin, 1973; Fromkin & Rodman, 1988):

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Anticipation
Perseveration
Substitution
Reversal
Spoonerisms
Malapropism
Insertions of sounds

68
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Figurative use of language

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Metaphorical Language

69
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The study of how people use language

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Pragmantics

70
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Adress the question of what you can accomplish with speech and fall into five basic categories.

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Speech Acts

71
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Searle’s Taxonomy of Speech Acts

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Representative
Directive
Commissive
Expressive
Declaration or Performative

72
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Mr. Smith says, “It’s important for Jack to learn responsibility. Asking him to help shovel the driveway is one way he can learn about responsibility

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Representative

73
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“Please help me shovel the snow”

74
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“I’m busy now, but I’ll help you shovel the snow later,”

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Commissive

75
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“I’m really upset that you didn’t come through in helping me shovel the snow,”

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Expressive

76
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“You’re fired.”

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Declaration or Perfomative

77
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We accomplish our goals in speaking in an oblique fashion.

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Indirect Speech Acts

78
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Is an impairment of language functioning caused by damage to the brain (Caramazza & Shapiro, 2001; Garrett, 2003; Hillis & Caramazza, 2003)

79
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It is characterized by notable impairment in the understanding of spoken words and sentences.

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Wernicke’s Aphasia

80
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It is characterized by the production of agrammatical speech at the same time that verbal comprehension ability is largely preserved.

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Broca’s Aphasia

81
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It is the combination of highly impaired comprehension and production of speech. It is caused by lesions to both Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas

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Global Aphasia

82
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Involves difficulties in naming objects or in retrieving words. The patient may look at an object and simply be unable to retrieve the word that corresponds to the object

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Anomic Aphasia

83
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Involves the formation of a mental models that is analogous, in some respects, to visual imagery.

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Haptic Imagery (touch-based)

84
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Used to explain things, ideas and actions using sounds that appeal to our sense of hearing

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Auditory Imagery (based on hearing)

85
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Appears to be more proficient in representing and manipulating verbal and other symbol-based knowledge

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Left Hemisphere

86
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Appears to represent and manipulate visuospatial knowledge in a manner similar to perception

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Right Hemishphere

87
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Refers to the use of images that represent visual characteristics such as colors and shapes

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Visual Imagery

88
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Refers to images that represent spatial features such as depth dimensions, distances, and orientations.

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Spatial Imagery

89
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Cognitive Map Heuristics

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Right Angle Bias
Symmetry Heuristic
Rotation Heuristic
Alignment Heuristic
Relative-Position Heuristic

90
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people tend to think of intersections

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Right angle bias

91
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people tend to think of shapes

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Symmetry heuristic

92
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people tend to distort the images as being either more vertical or more horizontal

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Rotation heuristic

93
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distorting their mental images to be better aligned

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Alignment heuristic

94
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distorted in mental images in
ways that more accurately reflect people’s conceptual
knowledge

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Relative-position heuristic

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