PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Mental Rotation
26 Feb 2020
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Lots of individual differences in people"s ability to visualize. Seeing the world in the mind"s eye: imaging something that exists in the real world but seeing it through our minds. Chronometric studies of imagery: mental processes take time, we can get some info on how people are processing their mental images by observing how long it takes to perform particular tasks. Difference between depiction and description: depending on mode, different features will be prominent, depiction: large things positioned at front are prominent (ex: head, description: distinctive features, strong associations are prominent (ex: claws) Imagine a dot moving from on element in map to another. Assumption: if we engage in visual imagery, then it should take longer to get from more distanced elements than it does to closer ones. Results: visual imagery does take place, linear relationship between scanning time between pairs of locations on the imaged map, r = 0. 97.
