PSYC 213 Midterm: midterm 2 review

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Jelena Ristic

Document Summary

Concrete: imagen and logogen: more likely to remember concrete words. Von restoroff effect: different items are remembered better. Synthaesthesia: perceptual systems overlap: cross-modal effects. Eidetic imagery: perceptual and memory systems overlap icons: vividness does not always equal accuracy (similar to memory ex. flashbulb memories) Perception imagery and perception share the same resources: activity in visual sensory areas - feedforward & feedback, but imagery and perception are dissociable reversals of bistable images are less frequent in imagined images. Words: what makes them distinct? (especially spoken: grammatical function, gender. Compositional analysis = syntax + semantics: parse the words (syntax, retrieve the meaning of each word (semantics, compositional analysis gives the literal meaning. What about the figurative meaning, or the social pragmatic context. Transformational grammar (chomsky) language: open ended, all possible sentences speech: those sentences that are actually spoken finite state grammar: set of rules used to generate sentences in each language.