PSYC 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Linguistic Relativity, Bilingual Education, Brainstorming

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1F90
• Professor: John Mitterer

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Thinking is the manipulation of internal representations of external stimuli or. 3 basic units of thought are images, concepts and language (or symbols) created. Kinesthetic images are used to represent movements and actions; and their size may change. Same brain areas are involved in both vision and visual imagery; images can. 8. 1: what is the nature of thought? situations. Cognition: the process of thinking or mentally processing information (images, concepts, words, rules, and symbols) Image: most often, a mental representation that has picture-like qualities; an icon. Concept: a generalized idea representing a category of related objects or events. Language: words or symbols, and rules for combining them that are used for thinking and communication. 8. 2: in what ways are images related to thinking? rotated in space be stored or. Synesthesia: experiencing one sense in terms normally associated with another sense; for example, seeing colors when a sound is heard.