PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Modern Defense, Confirmation Bias, Deductive Reasoning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Lab 7: mental rotation 3d visual imagery plays causal role in our behaviours i. e. salivate or feel hungry after mentally picturing hot fudge ice cream sundae. Pulling image from memory and manipulating it = high-level cognitive skill. Mental imagery study of how we mentally represent memories of scenes/pictures + how we manipulate those images through rotation and scanning. 3d images not rotated all-in-one rotate part of one image, then check to see if remaining parts line up correctly with other image (part-by-part rotation) Generating mental images from memory + operating on them (i. e. scanning, rotation) = psychologically and neurologically distinct i. e. lh able to perform normally on rotation tasks even though couldn"t generate images from memory. Based on causal statements (i. e. if this, then that) the conditional = reasoning statement: many people make poor judgements when solving this task only 10% successful (e/4 rule)