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Chapter 10: Visual Imagery Flashcards

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Mental Imagery

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experiencing a sensory information in the absence of sensory input

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Imageless Thought Debate

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the debate about whether thought is possible in the absence of images

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Conceptual Peg Hypothesis

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a hypothesis associated with Paivio’s dual coding theory, that slates that concrete norms create images that other words can hang on to, which enhances memory for these words

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Mental Chronometry

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determining the amount of time needed to carry out a cognitive task

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Mental Scanning

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a process of mental imagery in which a person scans a mental image in his or her mind

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Imagery Debate

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the debate about whether imagery is based on spatial mechanisms, such as those involved in perception, or on propositional mechanisms that are related to language

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Spatial Representations

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a representation in which different parts of an image can be described as corresponding to specific locations in space

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Epiphenomenon

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a phenomenon that accompanies a mechanism but is not actually part of the mechanism

an example is lights that flash on a mainframe computer as it operates

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Propositional Representations

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a representation in which relationships are represented by symbols, as when the words of a language represent objects and the relationships between objects

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Depictive Representations

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corresponds to spatial representation, so-called because a spatial representation can be depicted by a picture

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Mental Walk Task

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a task used in imagery experiments in which participants are asked to form a mental image of an object and to imagine that they are walking toward this mental image

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Imagery Neurons

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neurons in the human brain studied by Kreiman, which fire in the same way when a person sees a picture of an object and when a person creates a visual image of the object

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Topographic Map

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each point on a visual stimulus causes activity at a specific location on a brain structure, such as the visual cortex, and points next to each other on the stimulus cause activity at points next to each other on the structure

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Unilateral Neglect

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a problem caused by brain damage, usually to the right parietal lobe, in which the patient ignores objects in the left half of his or her visual field

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Method of Loci

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a method for remembering things in which the things to be remembered are placed at different locations in a mental image of a spatial layout

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Pegword Technique

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a method for remembering things in which the things to be remembered are associated with concrete levels

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Spatial Imagery Refers

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the ability to image spatial relations

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Objects Imagery Refers

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the ability to image visual details, features, or objects

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Paper Folding Test (PFT)

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a test in which a piece of paper is folded and then pierced by a pencil to create a hole

the task is to determine, form a number of alternatives, where the holes will be on the unfolded piece of paper

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Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ)

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a test in which people are asked to rate the vividness of mental images they create

this test is designed to measure object imagery ability

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Degraded Pictures Task

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a task in which a line drawing is degraded by omitting parts of the drawing and obscuring it with a visual noise pattern

the person’s task is to identify the object

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Mental Rotation Task

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a task in which a person judges whether two pictures of three-dimensional geometric objects are pictures of the same object rotated in space or are pictures of two mirror-image objects rotated in space

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What is visual imagery?

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“seeing” in the absence of a visual stimulus

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What is mental imagery?

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experiencing a sensory impression in the absence of sensory input

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Why is visual imagery useful?

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provides a way of thinking that adds another dimension to purely verbal techniques

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What is the imageless thought debate?

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is thinking possible without images?

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What is the imagery and cognitive revolution?

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developed ways to measure behavior that could be used to infer cognitive processes

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What were early ideas about imagery?

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the founder of behaviorism, John Watson, describe images as “unproven” and “mythological”, and therefore not worthy of study

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What is the spatial correspondence between imagery and perception?

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mental scanning

participants create mental images and then scan them in their minds

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Is imagery spatial or propositional?

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spatial representation is an epiphenomenon

accompanies real mechanism but is not actually a part of it

proposed that imagery is propositional

can be represented by abstract symbols

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What is relationship between viewing distance and ability to perceive details?

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imagine small object next to large object

quicker to detect details on the larger object

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What is the mental-walk task?

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move closer for small animals than for large animals in order that the animal fills the visual field

move toward until the elephant (or the mouse) fills the visual field, tell distance to the animals

distance to mouse is shorter

images are spatial, like perception

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What is brain activity in response to imagery?

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may indicate something is happening

may not cause imagery so still we do not know whether imagery is spatial or propositional

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What is transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)?

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decreases brain functioning in a particular area of the brain for a short time

if behavior is disrupted, the deactivated part of the brain is causing that behavior

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What is unilateral neglect?

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patient ignores objects in on half of visual field in perception and imagery

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What are the differences in experience between imagery and perception?

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perception is automatic and stable

imagery takes effort and is fragile

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What is the method of loci?

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visualizing items to be remembered in different locations in a mental image of a spatial layout

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What is the pegword technique?

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associate items to be remembered with concrete words

pair each of these things with a peg-word

create a vivid image of things to be remembered with the object represented by the word

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What are individual differences in visual imagery?

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visualizer could be type of spatial imagery or object imagery

spatial imagery people better in mental rotation

object imagery people better in degraded picture task

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