PSY 654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mental Rotation, Dual Code, Epiphenomenon
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Representing knowledge: one of the earliest debates in psychology concerns the role of imagery in thought, different than symbolic representation which is an arbitrary mental representation of a. Imagery is a mental representation of something that isn"t currently present. concept: according to pavlo"s dual code theory, thoughts can be represented in two ways: As symbolic codes (words: dual code theory describes only one way of representing images as depictive representations/ analogue codes, propositional theory. Something that accompanies the real mechanism but is not actually part of the mechanism: e. g lights flashing as a mainframe computer carries out its calculations. Where relationships can be represented by abstract symbols, such as an equation, or a statement such as the cat is under the table . A proposition is the smallest unit of knowledge that can stand as an assertion. E. g the smallest unit about which it makes sense to make a judgement true/false.
