Finals Flashcards
Cognitive Psychologists would love to ____ directly how each of us represents knowledge.
Observe
A possibility for observing how we represent knowledge in our minds is the ____ approach
Rationalist
Refers to facts that can be STATED; knowing that
Declarative Knowledge
Knowledge of procedures that can be IMPLEMENTED; knowing how
Procedural Knowledge
The picture is similar to the real-world object it represents. It provides concrete information such as shape and relative size.
Analogous
The relationship between the word and what it represents is simply arbitrary
Symbolic Representation
Some cognitive psychologists have suggested that we have some _____ that resemble pictorial, analogous images, and other _______ that are highly symbolic, like words
Mental Representations
Are a good way to show CONCRETE and SPATIAL information in a way that is similar to what they show
Picture
Make it easy to express ABSTRACT and CATEGORICAL information in a way that is symbolic of what the words mean.
WORDS
Mental representation of things that are not currently seen or sensed by the sense organs
Imagery
Controlling pain and overcoming psychological problems, such as phobias and other anxiety disorders
Guided Imagery Techniques
Imagery to think about various structures and processes and to solve problems in their chosen fields
Imagery in Various Fields
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.
Occupational Therapy
People use both pictorial (ANALOG) and verbal codes (SYMBOLIC) for representing information in their mind
Dual-code theory
Types of codes
Symbolic Code
Analog Codes
Is a code that has been chosen RANDOMLY to stand for something that DOES NOT PERCEPTUALLY RESEMBLE what is being represented.
Symbolic Code
Are codes that RESEMBLE THE OBJECTS they are representing.
Analog Codes
Our mental representations more closely resemble the abstract form of a ____
Proposition
Is the meaning underlying a particular relationship among concepts: [Relationship between elements] ([Subject element)][Object element]
Proposition
According to the ____ hypothesis, we represent and use visual imagery in a way that is functionally equivalent (strongly analogous) to that for physical percepts.
functional equivalence
Our ____ of images and our ___ across images CORRESPOND to those of physical objects and percepts
Mental Transformation
Mental Movements
The ____ among elements of a visual image are ANALOGOUS to those relations in actual physical space
Spatial Relations
Can be used to generate information that was not explicitly stored during encoding
Mental Images
The construction of mental image is ANALOGOUS to the construction of?
Visually Perceptible Figures.
Is functionally EQUIVALENT to visual perception in terms of the processes of the visual system used for each
VIsual Imagery
Mental rotation involves ____ an object’s visual mental image
Rotationally Transforming
Mentally zooming IN or OUT to perceive details about a mental image
Image Scaling
The FURTHER away from each other the objects were, the LONGER it took participants to scan from one object to the other
IMAGE SCANNING
A person asked to imagine a scene and then describe it ignores half of the imagined scene
Representational Neglect
A person ignores half of his or her visual field
Spatial Neglect
The use of an organized means of combining words in order to communicate with those around us.
Language
The psychology of our language as it interacts with the human mind. It considers both production and comprehension of language
Psycholinguistics
Four areas of study have contributed greatly to an understanding of psycholinguistic
Linguistics
Neurolinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics
The study of language structure and change
Linguistics
The study of the relationships among the brain, cognition, and language
Neurolinguistics
The study of the relationship between social behavior and language (Caroll, 1986)
Sociolinguistics
The study of language via computational methods
Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics