PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Serendipity, Recognition Memory, Mental Rotation
19 Feb 2014
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Shown stimuli (pictures) and asked if they have seen it previously. Leehey: hemispheric specialization (for words vs. pictures, pictures/words presented to lvf (rh) vs. rvf (lh) Left hemisphere better at processing words than right hemisphere. Right hemisphere better at processing pictures than left hemisphere: suggests: Verbal and nonverbal stimuli processed using different codes and different structures. Two ways to represent (code) info: verbal, visual images. Type of code: nature of information. Some information makes sense to use visual coding: task. Paivio concrete vs. abstract words: rate imagability (house justice) House is highly imagable, but not justice (abstract word: match on meaningfulness, frequency (how common it is, paired association task: L - l justice dignity: recall: h-h > h-l > l-h > l-l, suggests: Better at h-l than l-h because the cue is highly imagable and accesses compound words. 1st item provides cue(s) to reinstate compound image. Asked how clearly the image was generated in your head: qmi (betts)
