PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Temporal Lobe, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Epiphenomenon
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Mental ability: ability to recreate the sensory world in the absence of physical stimuli, also occurs in senses other than vision. Images accompany thought, studying images was a way of studying thinking. Imageless thought debate: link between imagery and thinking. Behaviourists: branded the study of imagery as unproductive because visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them. Watson: described images as unproven and mythological, therefore not worth study. Dominance of behaviourism pushed the study of imagery out of mainstream psychology. Alan paivio"s: paired-associate learning: easier to remember concrete nouns like truck or tree that can be imagined than it is to remember abstract nouns that are difficult to image. Paired-associate learning: participants are presented with pairs of words. Task is ot recall the word that was paired with it during the study period. Conceptual peg hypothesis: concrete nouns create images that other words can hang onto.
