Debbie is trying to recall the words to the French national anthem. Jim is trying to recall the exact appearance of the Statue of Liberty. If asked, Paivio would probably say that Debbie is retrieving information stored in a(n) ____ code, whereas Jim is retrieving information stored in a(n) ____ code.
a. analog; symbolic
b. symbolic; analog
c. visual; verbal
d. symbolic; verbal
Question 2
The dual-code theory states that ____.
a. all information is encoded in the same form and can be called up as either a visual or verbal representation.
b. information is represented in the form of a proposition with two separate ways of encoding information, verbally and nonverbally.
c. information is represented in the form of a proposition with two separate ways of encoding information, verbally and nonverbally.
d. all information is either represented in a verbal or in a nonverbal form, but not both.
Spotted hyena in Amboseli National Park, Kenya
An albatross chick at Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Monument, Midway Atoll.
Martian tripod illustration from the 1906 French edition of The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.
Subtle Differences in Written Words