PSYCH 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Mental Chronometry, Visual Cortex, Mental Rotation
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Ability to recreate the sensory world in absense of physical stimuli, occurs in senses other than vision studying images == studying thought imageless thought debate images accompny thought. 3 basic elements of consciousness (wundt: sensations, feelings, images. Aristotle, thought is impossible aithout an image . Study of cognition brought back study of imagery. Easier to remember concrete nouns than abstract nouns. Paired associate learning: subjects presented w/ pairs of words, during test they are presented w/ 1st word from each pair, task is recall the word that was paired with it during the study period. Conceptual peg hypothesis concrete nouns create images that other words can hang onto. If presenting boat-hate creates an image of a boat, then presenting the word boat later will bring back boat image, which provides a number of places on which subjects can place hat in their mind (p278) Using knowledge about the world in making their judgements. Patient ignores objects in of visual field.
