representations
mental images of referents
referents
external things being perceived
analog representations
visual mimicry
dual-coding hypothesis
only visual information can be stored as both analog and propositional representations. Everything else is propositional
face recognition
we are uniquely good at recognizing faces than any other kind of image
mental rotation
we can rotate analog representations in our mind
propositional representations
abstract relations
picture superiority effect
we tend to remember images and pictures more effectively than abstract information
selective interference
imagined stimuli interferes with the accurate perception of external stimuli