PSYCH207 Study Guide - Elf, Categorical Perception, Bes

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH207
• Professor: Jennifer Stolz

Document Summary

Meant to describe the fundamental nature and properties of visual images. Perceptual equivalence imagery is functionally equivalent to perception to the extent that similar mechanisms in the visual system are activated when objects or events are imagined as when the same objects or events are actually perceived. Many of the same kinds of internal processes used in mental visualization are used in visual perception too. Many participants were unable to distinguish b/t their own images and the faint pictures b/c the images share many similarities with faint pictures. Transformational equivalence imagined transformation and physical transformation exhibit corresponding dynamic characteristics and are governed by the same laws of motion. Mention rotation works in the same way physical rotation does it is continuous the time it takes to perform mental rotations depends on how much rotation is to be done, as with physical rotations. 1 faster to draw this figure by thinking of it was the 2nd description.