Visual Imagery - Week 9b

Question 1

interact

Answer 1

things are better remembered when there is interactive mental imagery for them

Question 2

paired-associate learning

Answer 2

concrete pairs are better remembered than abstract pairs
*easier to create a mental image

Question 3

spatial and strict analogical

Answer 3

the way that we mentally perceive things is the way to which we visually perceive them

Question 4

propositional representation

Answer 4

used to code spatial relationships without being analogical. symbolic relationships between words suffice

Question 5

tacit knowledge

Answer 5

mimic internal processes that we know happen externally when we really look at something

Question 6

lenient analogical

Answer 6

preserves the relative relationships between positions

Question 7

strict analogical

Answer 7

preserves the relative and absolute relationships between positions

Question 8

propositional networks

Answer 8

mimic spatial relationships between portions of an image without being analogical

Question 9

representations of relative size

Answer 9

the difference in comparing objects to something of a different size and the difficulty that is linked to the perception

i.e. elelphant v rabbit x rabbit v fly
- “does the rabbit have whiskers?”

Question 10

perception and imagery

Answer 10

there is a lack of difference between visual perception and visual imagery. the neural firing rates are relatively the same regardless if you are seeing or imagining said stimulus