PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Occipital Lobe, Steven Pinker, Mental Rotation
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Psych 207 - lecture 8 - visual imagery and spatial cognition. Visual images: mental representation of a stimulus thought to share at least some properties with a pictorial/spatial depiction of the stimulus. Mnemonics: strategies to facilitate retention and later retrieval of info. first technique: method of loci requires learner to imagine series of places that have some order to them. Bower: to improve this method = use cues, imagery, interactive images, etc. Second technique: interacting images, two things must interact in that image ( goat and. Pipe = picture a goat smoking a pipe would be better remembered) third technique: pegword method, involves picturing items in another set of ordered. Cues , pegging them to the cue, cues = nouns that come from memorized rhyming list technique that doesn"t involve imagery: involves recoding material to be recalled, adding extra words/sentences to mediate.
