PSY 201 EXAM 4- University of Oregon || Questions and 100% Verified Answers.

Representing verbal info correct answers retain gist/ meaning vs. exact wording when told a story people retain the gist of the story not the exact wording Visual-spatial information correct answers stored as propositions (verbal statements) or as visual images ( a visual representation that preserves spatial and form information) Evidence for a visual-spatial format correct answers 3 ways: 1) Scanning experiments 2)mental rotation experiments 3) eidetic imagery Scanning experiments correct answers memorize map of island. Then, imagine map of island. Scan from location x to location y. RT is proportional to distance between the 2 points mental rotation experiments correct answers presents subjects with letters some of which are mirrors reversed and rotated at varying degrees from upright Task--identify as quickly as possible if letter is mirror reversed Results: time required to respond depends on degree of rotation Evidence: that subjects mentally rotate figure to upright position to compare it with an image stored in memory eidetic imagery correct answers long lasting and detailed images of a visual scene. Can be scanned or "looked at" representation of Concepts (word meanings) correct answers Concept refer to categories of things Prototype theory of concepts correct answers picture-like representation of typical or average member of a category I.e. word meanings/concepts are not just definitional, but are represented by prototypes (the average/typical member) Hierarchical model of semantic (conceptual) memory correct answers Each category has properties which are stored as high as possible in the hierarchy lower categories inherit the properties of the higher categories to which they belong Links between different categories and between categories and their properties