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Lecture 9 & Sternberg 2 Reading

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we form imaginal maps based on   our physical interactions with & navigations through our physical environment  
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spatial cognition deals with   the acquisition & use of knowledge about objects & interactions in 2-D & 3-D space  
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cognitive maps are   internal representations of our physical environment particularly centering on spatial relationships  
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Tolman studied rats ability to learn a maze & showed that behavior is more than just stimulus-response associations   divided rats into 3 groups that varied on if they got a reward or not and the time they got one. the rats were learning a cognitive map of the maze that they used to travel it even when it changed  
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Tolman one of the earliest cognitive theorists argued for   the importance of the mental representations that give rise to behavior  
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research suggests that right hippocampus is involved in   sensitivity to global features of environment  
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humans use 3 types of knowledge when forming/using cognitive maps   landmark, route-road, & survey  
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landmark knowledge is   info about particular features at a location & may be based on imaginal & propositional representations  
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route-road knowledge is   specific pathways for moving from 1 location to another & may be based on procedural & declarative knowledge  
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survey knowledge involves   estimated distances between landmarks & may be represented imaginary or propositionally  
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people use both analogical & propositional code for   imaginal representations  
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heuristics are   cognitive strategies or rules of thumb that influence our estimates of distance & may reflect our perception of space & forms  
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in landmark knowledge the densities of landmarks appears to   affect our mental image of area  
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people estimate the distance between 2 places to be shorter when   traveling to a landmark than a non-landmark  
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distance estimations between particular physical locations weights   route-road knowledge more than survey knowledge  
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the use of heuristics in manipulating cognitive maps suggests that   propositional knowledge affects imaginal knowledge  
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Friedman & Brown where participants had to place cities on a map where the cities were clustered according to conceptual info found that   distortions reflect a tendency to regularize features of mental maps  
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right-angle bias   people tend to think of interactions as forming 90° angles more often that they do  
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symmetry heuristic   people think of shapes as more symmetrical than they are  
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rotation heuristic   when figures/boundaries are slightly slanted people tend to distort them as being more vertical/horizontal than they are  
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alignment heuristic   people tend to represent landmarks/boundaries that are slightly out of alignment by distorting mental images to be better aligned than they are  
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relative-position heuristic   relative positions of landmarks/boundaries distorted in mental images in ways that more accurately reflect peoples conceptual knowledge about contexts in which landmarks/boundaries are located, rather than reflecting the actual spatial configurations  
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there are differences between perceptual processes &   representational (imaginal/propositional) processes  
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semantic or propositional knowledge (or beliefs) can influence   our imaginal representations of world maps  
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propositional knowledge about semantic categories may affect   imaginal representations of maps  
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Hirtle studied the influence of semantic clustering on estimates of distances where   participants shown a map of many buildings & asked to estimate distances. they tended to distort distances by guessing shorter distances for more similar landmarks & longer distances for less similar landmarks  
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we are able to create cognitive maps from verbal description that are   as accurate as those made from visuals  
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various forms of mental representation are sometimes considered   mutually exclusive  
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we often create false dichotomies where we suggest alternatives are mutually exclusive when   they might be complementary  
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compromise theory   propositional code in long-term memory, generate a depictive code to see what the object looks like  
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people remember much more   visual info than non-visual info  
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Shepard Experiment had subjects view 612 pictures, sentences, & words for 6 seconds each & then performed a recognition test   results found that our memory for pictures seems to be significantly better that our memory for words  
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visual memory is poor for   unimportant & unattended details when stimuli lack meaning when alternatives are similar  
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good recognition involves   attention to details meaningfulness & relevancy of details distinctive alternative  
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Richer code found that   more richer details does not help people remember visual info  
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basic argument of dual code hypothesis   natural to generate 2 diff codes for visual information but visual information people stick w/ 1. Having 2 codes provides 2 diff means of accessing that info & maybe thats why we access visual information better  
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in the dual code hypothesis concrete words can be coded   both verbally and non-verbally and are remembered better  
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in the dual code hypothesis abstract words can be coded   verbally but not non--verbally  
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in the dual code hypothesis memory is bad for unattended details because   we dont create verbal code for unattended features  
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in dual code hypothesis memory is bad when alternatives are similar because   visual code doesn't help  
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Jonides & Baum experiment found that people are good at   estimating distance using cognitive maps. They estimate things that are further apart to be further apart and things that are closer together to be closer together  
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heuristics are mental shortcuts that are   usually right but sometimes wrong  
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