PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Mental Rotation, Occipital Lobe, Image Scanner
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Everyday use of visual images = a basis for making decisions, as an aid to remembering. Galton asked participants to describe their images and to rate them for vividness; he asked them to introspect or look within and to report on their own mental contents. The self-report data he obtained fit well with common sense: participants reported that they could inspect their images much as they would inspect a picture. Their descriptions made it clear that they were viewing their images from a certain position and a certain distance; they also reported that they could read off the image details of color and texture. Galton"s participants differed from each other in their self-reports; many described images of photographic clarity, rich in detail while others reported very sketchy images or none at all. In this way, galton"s data might reveal differences in how people talk about their imagery rather than differences in imagery per se.
