PSYC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: 2D Computer Graphics, Mental Rotation, Mental Image
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Chapter 7: the landscape of memory: mental images, maps, and propositions. Pictures capture concrete/spatial info analogous to what they represent. Words capture abstract/categorical info symbolic of what they represent. Internal representation of items that aren"t currently being sensed. Kosslyn (1975) - image scaling images used to help solve certain types of. Mental image of your house: ex. Studies demonstrate: active process, response times are proportional to degree of rotation, can rotate images in 3d space as easily as 2d space. Two codes to represent info: (linked together) Images = (cid:498)mental sculptures. (cid:499: analogue pictoral, symbolic verbal. Paivio (1971: compared concrete (can picture) words (potato, horse) w/ abstract (hard to picture) words (justice, love), easier to recall concrete words. Dual codes created for concrete words (analog and verbal label) but not for abstract words. Sequence matters for words, not for unrelated images. Picture of shapes if other shapes fit into the previously shown shape.
