PSYCH257 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fair Coin, Image Scanner, Expected Utility Hypothesis

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH257
• Professor: Allison Kelly

Document Summary

Imagery is very related to memory in many ways. In essence it is another form of coding that is available to use in ltm-in addition to semantic coding, phonological coding we also store a. Visual based code that we can retrieve: cognitive psychologists try and answer what it is that think that we are generating. Underlying theoretical debate: although there is agreement among cognitive psychologists that most people can form an image in your mind, there is disagreement on whether if it is a useful code that we can gain new information from. Mnemonics and memory codes: mnemonics are techniques used to help remember and recall information- often use the construction of mental images, chunking is technically a mnemonic device. However, simonides was able to associate different people with different locations in the banquet hall: using locations to help you remember something, ex.