PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Epiphenomenon, Tacit Knowledge, Mental Rotation
19 Mar 2016
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No t e b o o k: cognitive psych. Visual imagery: a type of mental imagery involving vision, in which an image is experienced in the absence of a visual stimulus. Useful because it provides a way of thinking that adds another dimension to purely verbal techniques, and allows us to simulate without doing. Mental imagery: experiencing a sensory impression in the absence of sensory input. Wundt believed that images were a basic element of consciousness, along with sensations and feelings. Imageless thought debate: the debate about whether thought is possible in the absence of images. Conceptual peg hypothesis: a hypothesis created by paivio that states that concrete nouns create images that other words can hang onto, which enhances memory for these words. Mental chronometry: determining the amount of time needed to carry out a cognitive task. Done with mental rotation experiments, suggesting that imagery and perception may share the same mechanisms.
