PSYC2071 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Episodic Memory, General Idea
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How we mentally represent events- things that are more than a single concept. Propositions- smallest idea that can be verified as being true or false. John read the book is a proposition- you can verify if this is true or false. The book by itself however is not a proposition. A proposition is built around a relation (predicate) There are also arguments (things that are being related too) Propositions are abstract- they are language and modality free. Propositional network (lindsay and norman, 1972, anderson, 1976) Network begins with a propositional node- where the proposition begins. Propositions have relations and arguments that are associated with this relation. We can build a network by introducing other propositions with its own relations and ar. This helps to convey messages- reducing ideas down to there basis. Because this account is an episode- we are using are episodic memory. They measured speed of classification as false of certain sentences.
