PSY270H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Optical Flow, Cognitive Psychology, Iconic Memory
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Lecture4: describe atkinson & shiffrin"s modal model of memory, list the coding, limiting factors and processes associated with sensory memory, stm and. Provide evidence that visuospatial sketchpad is analogous to phonological loop. List the key functions of central executive and provide experimental evidence. Explain why the binding problem applies to baddeley"s model and what was done to address it. Lecture5: list the code and limiting factors of ltm, explain the difference between the systems and processing frameworks of ltm. The scientific method has 4 key principles: empiricism, determinism, testability, parsimony. Kosslyn proposed the functional-equivalence hypothesis which believes all images are represented as spatial representations (analogue codes) Pylyshyn proposed propositional theory which believes images are epiphenomena of underlying propositional networks and are stored as propositions. The concreteness effect. (concrete is better than the abstract things) Memory for things that we can touch is better than the memory for the thing we cannot touch.
