PSY100H1 Chapter 8: chapter 8

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

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Cognition= mental activity such as thinking or representing info. Analogical representation= mental representation that has some of the physical characteristics of an object; its analogous to the object. Symbolic representation= an abstract mental representation that does not correspond to the physical features of an object or idea. Rep of that picture in your mind s eye parallels the rep in your brain the first time you saw the picture. The r studies and analogical mental images: participants developed mental images of the objects and rotated these images to view the objects in their upright positions. The farther an object was from upright, the longer this process took. We can represent only a limited range of knowledge analogically. If sth cannot be perceived wholly by our perceptual system, we cannot form a complete analogical rep. Mental maps therefore involve a mixture of analogical and symbolic rep. Symbolic rep consist of words, which can rep abstract ideas in a succinct verbal form.