Psychology 2135A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Knowledge Representation And Reasoning, Embodied Cognition, Temporal Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Categorization and knowledge organize the sensory world into meaningful and usable mental structures. Fundamental cognitive mechanisms recruited to bring structure to sensory world. Logical systems aka amodal systems: hierarchical models, spreading activation, schema theory. Imagine playing tennis this activates perceptual areas of the brain: dual-code theory (paivio) Information is represented in combined verbal and visual codes: both perceptual and non-perceptual information is present, emphasis on using language to remember a face (amodal, paivio used the idea that the formation of mental images aids in learning. If sentence refers to motor activities, there"s activation in the motor cortex. Found a very small effect, might not be a replicable experiment. Hierarchical model collins and quillian: knowledge is organized as a hierarchy within a spreading activation system. Level 1 superordinate level information about animals: what"s true about animals is true about anything under this level. Level 2 basic level types of animals.