Psych 228 Cognitive Psychology Exam 3 Questions And Answers 100% Accurate A+ Graded.

Mental Process vs Mental Product - correct answer Process: what the mind does. Eg. Attention, encoding, retrieval Product: the consequences of processes. Eg. Recall, comprehension, primed responses Mental Representation - correct answer What processes operate on. What products are derived from. The format of stored knowledge. ----'stand for' ----capture aspects of target info. ----Only gist - Imagistic representations. image-like features - Abstract propositions. a list of things Internal Representation - correct answer - Gist-like - Brain states (neural activity) - Theoretical structure o mental images o propositions o rules o conceptual nodes o mental nodes- run mental simulation in head Challenge -similar info about the world can be represented in very different format. -e.g. Concrete image/abstract symbols/neurological states Mental Imagery - correct answer -direct, analogical -preserves visual-spatial relations. Evidence for Mental Imagery - correct answer Mental Rotation test, Image Scanning & Map test But they all used image-based stimuli and tasks. So it is unsurprising that they provide evidence for image repre. Mental Rotation test, Shepard & Metzler - correct answer Does your mental rep same as the real object? - imagines object in head and then move it around in head - measure amount of time = a function of the degree of rotation required - same results for rotating 2D and 3D - highly linear results - Mental images. obey same property relations as real objects Image scanning, Kosslyn 1975 - correct answer Image elephant & cat, cat & flee. Big and small pair. Faster to verify details that are larger in image. Result ----images can be scanned like physical percepts ----greater distance = longer scan time. ----visual image preserves spatial relations. Image scaling, Kosslyn Island - correct answer have people memorize map of islands imagine traveling one point to another preserving real world characteristics Longer time = mentally travel longer distances on the map. North campus vs. South campus, further in our representation than the real distance. Because we have knowledge of their other differences. Paired Associates Learning - correct answer Memorize word pairs concrete BEST -> abstract WORST Better when form visual images of noun pairs. Dual Code Theory (Paivio) - correct answer Represent concepts in 2 forms ----Visual image (analog) ----Verbal representation (symbolic) Dual code facilitates memory Concrete concepts have both codes ----Richer reps = Better memory Abstract concepts have only verbal labels ----Must be represented in terms of symbols (i.e. words)