RS110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Construals, Spatial Cognition, Mental Rotation

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS110
• Professor: Peter Frick

Document Summary

Introduction: visual images: a mental representation of a stimulus thought to share at least some properties with a. In this case, the cues are not locations but rather nouns that come from a memorized rhyming list: should depict the to-be remembered items interacting in some way with items at the various loci. Empirical investigations of imagery: number of assoications. recalling it: relational-organizational hypothesis: the idea that visual imagery aids memory by producing a greater more concrete the noun, the richer the image and the more elaborated the internal code. For: results: it is not imagery per se that helps memory but rather the way in which imagery is used. Interacting images presumably create or suggest more links between the target information and other information, making the target information easier to retrieve link the two to-be-remembered pieces of information. Scanning images: research reviewed suggests that people can construct and transform their visual images.