PSY270H5 Lecture 6: PSY270 Lecture 6
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Introduce 2 competing theories of mental representations. Discuss the nature of cognitive maps and the shortcuts we use to represent location. Imagery is a mental representation of something that isn"t currently present. Tend to assume imagery is visual but we have imagery in other modalities too. Different than symbolic representation which is an arbitrary mental representation of a concept. So we all sort of have an idea of what imagery is it"s just a mental representation of something that isn"t currently present. Usually we think about imagery as visual imagery you can imagine a picture of something but we can have imagery for all our modalities. So we can have auditory imagery so you have a song that"s stuck in your head that"s auditory imagery you have that sound in your head without it being present. We can have imagery for smells we can think about familiar smells from your childhood.
