PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Visual Cortex
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Cognition: mental activity such as thinking or representing information. The challenge for cognitive psychologists is to understand these mental representations. Eg. the word violin stands for a musical instrument. We often see things without trying eg: lemon. Evidence support the notion that representations take on picture like qualities. 1970s, participants were shown letters in different orientation and we told to figure out what the letter was. The farther the object from upright position, the longer the discrimination took. Conclusion: participants had mentally rotated representations of the objects to view the objects in their upright positions. Visual imagery is associated with activity in primary visual cortex. Eye inside head like viewing a picture inside your head. Mental maps involve a mixture of analogous and symbolic representations. Regularization of irregular shapes in memory is a shortcut we use to keep info in memory, such shortcuts can lead to errors.
