PSY270H1 Study Guide - Dual Code, Mental Rotation, Xibalba
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Introduce debate how we represent knwoledge two oposing theories. Evidence suporting one or the other, shift regardless how actually organize it. Key themes: mental what we are asking everthing store represents something in real worlds, 34, at the end how organized and connected, one and search through serial way, or parallel network. Agree thoughts are images eaccepted quite sometime till early 19th century. Until francis calton we can think without images, he and friends could think but trouble forming mental images. Visual images, most is visual images, imagery not just visual. Symbolic no way resembles real world it is arbitrary like word dog. Imagery is analogue code analogues to real word cvds symbols which is symbolic. Dual code this is how rep thoughts. What we doing with images is one thing the end, analogue and deicted word same thing. Two ways to rep thoughts one way of rep images.
