PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Mental Chronometry, Behaviorism
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Imagery debate (imagery related to perception vs. language more?) Mental imagery is experiencing a sensory impression in the absence of sensory input. Visual imagery is seeing in the absence of a visual stimulus. Imagery has played an important role in the creative process and as a way of thinking, in addition to purely verbal techniques: e. g dreaming, imagery in the history of psych. Studying images was a way of studying thinking. Imagery debate: imagery is based on : perceptual, spatial mechanisms = images (aristotle, propositional, linguistic mechanisms = imageless. Imagery research began again in the 1960 s, with the advent of the cog revolution: measuring behaviour that linked to cognition, e. g. Paivio, paired-associate learning easier to remember concrete nouns (truck) than abstract nouns (justice: dual coding theory (paivio) words that represent concrete objects are represented twice in memory. (they are verbal + imaginal) = more recall. Conceptual-peg hypothesis: concrete nouns create images that other words can hang onto .
