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GATE 2026 XH5 (Psychology) – Question 32

Cognition · Thinking and Language: Concepts, propositions, imagery, information processing and ecological approaches · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Which of the following conceptualization postulates that there are two codes and two systems of storage of information – imagery code and verbal code?

  1. Functional propositional hypothesis
  2. Conceptual equivalency hypothesis
  3. Conceptualization based on mental rotation experiments
  4. Dual–coding hypothesis

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Correct answer: (D) Dual–coding hypothesis

Explanation

Paivio's dual-coding hypothesis says that information is stored in two separate but linked codes, an imagery code and a verbal code. The propositional and conceptual-equivalency views instead hold that all knowledge has one common abstract form.