PSYC 3030 Study Guide - Gettysburg Address, Mental Rotation, Roger Shepard
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Gettysburg address, gas gauge, windows on your house. Two theories: mental images are analog representations of past experience, images are epiphenomenal (incidental) and arise from representations used in general thought. Imagery is a problem for scientific study because it"s entirely in someone"s mind. However, there are a couple of ways in which it can be studied. How well you could learn two words that were paired together. What pavio found was that words that are easily imagined were easier to remember (pencil-boat or equality-truth). Pairs of concrete words are remembered better than abstract words. Roger shepard woke up one morning and saw a green, blob, sphere rotating over his bead. He could use basic shapes and rotate them. Shepard had 8 subjects run through 1600 trials. The degrees of rotation & planes were varied. He would simply ask if the pictures were the same or different.
