PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Psychology, Working Memory, Stopwatch
19 Nov 2012
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The hierarchical division of the sentence into units called phrases. Breaks in syntax = change in comprehension, reading speed, The pattern of pauses and pitch changes that characterize speech production. Elicit mental images seen in the mind"s eye. When we are mentally visualizing something, we use: long term memory, working memory. Perceptual knowledge: memory for what things look or sound like: ppl with perceptual knowledge can"t tell you what a penguin looks like. Subjects reported that they could inspect their images much as they would inspect a picture. Scenes were represented as if viewed from a certain position and distance. Some subjects described images of photographic clarity, as if they were actually seeing the imaged scene. Others subjects reported very sketchy images, or none at all. They were able to think about the scenes, but they weren"t seeing these scenes. What is revealed in self-report data is not imagery, but but rather imagery as the subject elects to describe it.
