lesson 8

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mariel javier

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Knowledge representation 
The form for what you know in your mind about things, ideas, events, and so on
Two kinds of knowledge structures
Declarative Knowledge
Procedural Knowledge
Declarative Knowledge 
Facts that can be stated, such as the date of your birth, the name of your best friend, or the way a rabbit looks
Procedural Knowledge 
Knowledge of procedures that can be implemented, such as the steps involved in tying your shoelaces, adding a column of numbers, or driving a car
Imagery 
Mental representation of things that are not currently seen or sensed by the sense organs
Imagery 
Recalling a first experience on a college campus
Imagining travelling down the Amazon River
Imagining having a third eye in the center of your forehead
Sensory modalities represented in imagery
Hearing
Smell
Taste
Guided imagery techniques 
Used for controlling pain, strengthening immune responses, promoting mental health, overcoming psychological problems like phobias and anxiety disorders
Dual-code theory 
Using both pictorial and verbal codes for representing information in our minds
Analog codes
Resemble the objects they are representing, like trees and rivers
Symbolic codes 
A form of knowledge representation that has been chosen arbitrarily to stand for something that does not perceptually resemble what is being represented
Propositional Theory 
Suggests that we do not store mental representations in the form of images or mere words, but rather in the form of propositions
Propositions 
May be used to describe any kind of relationship, including actions of one thing on another, attributes of a thing, positions of a thing, class membership of a thing, and so on
Spatial cognition 
Deals with the acquisition, organization, and use of knowledge about objects and actions in two- and three-dimensional space
Cognitive maps 
Internal representations of our physical environment, particularly centering on spatial relationships