PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Cn Tower, Von Restorff Effect, Perfectly Clear
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Time spaces: the visual experience of time unites such as days of the week or months of the year as occupying spatial locations outside the body (seeing the date on the street while you"re walking) Number forms: automatically generated images of numbers in various spatial layouts external to an individual (see numbers while you"re walking) Dual-coding theory: the theory that there are two ways of representing events, verbal and non-verbal. Verbal stimuli > sensory system > lagogens > verbal responses. Non-verbal stimuli > sensory system > imagens > non-verbal responses: lagogens: the units containing the info underlying our use of the word; the components of the verbal system. Imagens: the units containing info that generate mental images; the components of the non- verbal system. Mnemonic techniques: procedures used to aid memory (instructions to memorize something: method of loci: a mnemonic technique based on places and images (places loci & images)
