PSY 317: Cognitive Psych - Exam #3
1. Visual Imagery seeing in the absence of a visual
stimu- lus
2. Mental Imagery experiencing a sensory
impression in the absence of
sensory input
- recreating the sensory world in
the ab- sence of physical stimuli
3. What is the imageless-thought is thinking possible without images?
debate?
4. What did the imagery and ways to measure behavior that
cogni- tive revolution develop? could be used to infer cognitive
processes.
- paired-associate learning
5. Paivio (1963, 1965) found that
memory for words that evoke better
mental images is than - conceptual-peg hypothesis
those than do not.
6. Shepard and Meltzer (1971)
Men- tal Chronometry ... participants mentally rotated one
object to see if it matched another
7. Kosslyn (1973) imagery and object.
per- ception
memorize picture, create an image
of it.
- in the image, move from one part
of the picture to another
8. Kosslyn (1973) Like - found it took longer to mentally
perception, imagery is . move long distances than shorter
distances.
spatial
9. lea (1975) criticism of kosslyn More distractions when scanning
longer
distances may have increased
reaction time
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,PSY 317: Cognitive Psych - Exam #3
Interesting things encountered
during the mental scan are
responsible for these
distractions
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, PSY 317: Cognitive Psych - Exam #3
10. Pylshyn (1973) Spatial real mechanisms but is not
represen- tation is an actually a part of it.
epiphenomenon and - proposed that imagery is
accompanies... proposition- al and can be
represented by abstract symbols.
Propositional representation
11. Imagery Debate (symbols and language) &
(Pylyshyn) Depictive representa- tion
(similar to realistic pictures)
12. What is the tacit knowledge Pylyshyn (2003) -- Kosslyn's
explanation of imagery results can be explained by using
experi- ments? real-world knowl- edge
unconsciously.
13. Finke and Pinker (1982) Par-
ticipants judge whether arrow longer reaction time when greater
points to dots previously seen. dis- tance between arrow and dot
Weren't instructed to use visual (as if they were mentally
imagery and had no time to traveling)
mem- orize & no tacit
knowledge. They found...
14. What is the relationship
between viewing distance and
ability to perceive details? imagine small object next to large
object
- quicker to detect details on the
larger object.
15. What is the mental walk task? move closer to small animals than
to
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1. Visual Imagery seeing in the absence of a visual
stimu- lus
2. Mental Imagery experiencing a sensory
impression in the absence of
sensory input
- recreating the sensory world in
the ab- sence of physical stimuli
3. What is the imageless-thought is thinking possible without images?
debate?
4. What did the imagery and ways to measure behavior that
cogni- tive revolution develop? could be used to infer cognitive
processes.
- paired-associate learning
5. Paivio (1963, 1965) found that
memory for words that evoke better
mental images is than - conceptual-peg hypothesis
those than do not.
6. Shepard and Meltzer (1971)
Men- tal Chronometry ... participants mentally rotated one
object to see if it matched another
7. Kosslyn (1973) imagery and object.
per- ception
memorize picture, create an image
of it.
- in the image, move from one part
of the picture to another
8. Kosslyn (1973) Like - found it took longer to mentally
perception, imagery is . move long distances than shorter
distances.
spatial
9. lea (1975) criticism of kosslyn More distractions when scanning
longer
distances may have increased
reaction time
1/
,PSY 317: Cognitive Psych - Exam #3
Interesting things encountered
during the mental scan are
responsible for these
distractions
2/
, PSY 317: Cognitive Psych - Exam #3
10. Pylshyn (1973) Spatial real mechanisms but is not
represen- tation is an actually a part of it.
epiphenomenon and - proposed that imagery is
accompanies... proposition- al and can be
represented by abstract symbols.
Propositional representation
11. Imagery Debate (symbols and language) &
(Pylyshyn) Depictive representa- tion
(similar to realistic pictures)
12. What is the tacit knowledge Pylyshyn (2003) -- Kosslyn's
explanation of imagery results can be explained by using
experi- ments? real-world knowl- edge
unconsciously.
13. Finke and Pinker (1982) Par-
ticipants judge whether arrow longer reaction time when greater
points to dots previously seen. dis- tance between arrow and dot
Weren't instructed to use visual (as if they were mentally
imagery and had no time to traveling)
mem- orize & no tacit
knowledge. They found...
14. What is the relationship
between viewing distance and
ability to perceive details? imagine small object next to large
object
- quicker to detect details on the
larger object.
15. What is the mental walk task? move closer to small animals than
to
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