PSYC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: 2D Computer Graphics, Mental Rotation, Mental Image
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Chapter 7: the landscape of memory: mental images, maps, and propositions. Words: self-report, rationalist approach - observation, empirical support experiments, neuropsychological studies, pictures capture concrete/spatial info analogous to what they represent, words capture abstract/categorical info symbolic of what they represent. Internal representation of items that aren"t currently being sensed: help improve memory, kosslyn (1975) - image scaling images used to help solve certain types of. Mental image of your house: ex. Imagine bunny: studies demonstrate, active process, response times are proportional to degree of rotation, can rotate images in 3d space as easily as 2d space. Dual codes created for concrete words (analog and verbal label) but not for abstract words. Visual codes processed differently from symbolic codes: visual info interferes w/ spatial info, verbal labels interfere w/ spoken words, sequence matters for words, not for unrelated images, visual imagery ability, ex. Picture of shapes if other shapes fit into the previously shown shape.
