PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Hillary Clinton, Pen Pal, Inductive Reasoning
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Cognitive psychology is based on the fact that the brain represents information and that the act of thinking (cognition) is associated with manipulating these representations. Analogical: representation that has some physical characteristic of an object (similar to object) Relate to graphical layout, family trees relating relationship between others. Symbolic: representations that does not correspond to the physical features of an object. No relationship between what violin looks like and the letters that make up the word mental images are analogical representations. Participants asked to determine if an object was in its normal orientation or mirror image. Objects were rotated and presented in various positions. Participants developed mental images of the objects and rotated these images to view objects in upward position. Further away an object was from being upright, the longer the process took. Have only a limited range of knowledge analogically - if something cannot be perceived wholly, we cannot form a complete analogical representation of it.
