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COG Psych exam 3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
11/23/2009

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Imagery
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Perceptual experiences that happen in the absence of a physical stimulus
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Debate about Imagery
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What it is,what is does
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Concrete words
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cat, boat, mohawk, piano
(easy to remember)
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Abstract words
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honor, knowledge, deceit, curiousity
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Conceptual Peg hypthesis
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concrete words create images for words to "hang onto"
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Kosslyn believed..
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Imagery is like perception, Imagery is spatial
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Mental Scanning
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Memorize the image, focus on one part, focus on another part
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Pylyshin believed
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even though we have imagery we might not use it for thinking
imagery = propositional
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epiphenomenal
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side effect of thinking, not a cause
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Analog
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resembles the thing in some way , continuous values (picture of a dog)
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Symbolic
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Arbitrary doesnt resemble, concrete (the word DOG)
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Prepositional Representations
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symbolic, not words but thought of like words, combine logically to create meaning
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Tacit Knowledge explanation
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people know how scanning works in real perception, tried to imitate that conscioulsy or unconsciously
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Imagery is like perception
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imagery resembled projection, subjects didnt notice projection
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Evidence that we use imagery to think..
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mental rotation, mental scanning
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Dennett 1969
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Image of the tiger in head
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Visualization helps to make assiciations between concepts
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Method of Loci
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think about a well known path
associate items with landmarks along that path
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Category
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method for sorting things in the world and mental representation of things in groups
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Concept
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informtion we abstract from those groups
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Reasons for categories
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provides guides for extending information, direct attention to important dimensions , allow for creativity, minimize info storage
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categories definitional
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all category members should be equal
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prototypes
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people store one or more prototypical members of a class that new items get compared to
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exemplars
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people store all or most items they ahve previously classified.
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why we have the categories we have ?
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evolution, artifacts (structure and purpose), theories of how world works, peoples goals, culture groups
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theories impact ..
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inference, categorization
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goals impact..
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categorization
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Linguistic Level of Analysis
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pragmatics, syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology
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Phonology
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sounds of language, rules for combining sounds
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phoneme
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smallest unit of speech
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how many phonemes does english have?
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46 phonemes
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Voice onset time
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time between the release of the consonant and the start of vocal cord vibrations
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categorical perception
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members of the same category are harder to distinguish than members of different categories
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morpheme word
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smallest unti of definable meaning , meaningful unit composed of one or more morphemes
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speech segmentation
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determining the boundaries between spoken words
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top down processing
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requires prior knowledge about the words
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lexical ambiguity
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ambiguous words are interpreted based on the context
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syntax
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grammatical rules for combining words into meaningful sentences and phrases
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parsing
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analyzing grammatical structure of a sentence
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The "syntax first" approach
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parsing relies primarily on syntactic information only uses semantics if theres a problem
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Principles of late closure
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a word is assumed part of previous phase unless there is evidence to the contrary
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Interactions Approach
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semantics used the entire time, semantics and syntax together teh whole time
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Coherence
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degree to which pieces of informationin different sentences to one another
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INference
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uses our knowledge to add unstated information to the text
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Inference anaphoric -
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words that refer to the same entities
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Inference instrumental
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how the action was performed
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causal inference
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event caused the other
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bridging inference
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what do these things do with each other
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