PSYC 2400H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Von Restorff Effect, Mnemonic, Mental Model
17 Nov 2018
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The visual experience of time units such as days of the week or months of the year as occupying spatial locations outside the body. Automatically generated images of numbers in various spatial layouts external to an individual. The theory that there are two ways of representing events, verbal and non-verbal. The unites containing the information underlying our use of a word; the components of the verbal system. The units containing information that generate mental images; the components of the non- verbal system. The ease with which something such as a word can elicit a mental image. The degree to which a word refers to something that can be experienced by the sense (ie heard, felt, smelled, or tasted) The theory that was left hemisphere of the brain controls speech and is better at processing verbal material than is the right hemisphere, which is better at non-verbal tasks. A mnemonic technique based on places and images.
