PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Samuel Le Bihan, Hemispatial Neglect, Cognitive Revolution

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Susanne Ferber

Document Summary

Imagery provides a way of thinking that adds another dimension to the verbal techniques usually associated with thinking. Imageless thought debate - thinking can occur without images: people who had great difficulty forming visual images were still quite capable of thinking. Task is to 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 . Shepard and jacqueline metzler (1971) - mental chronometry which determine the amount of time needed to carry out various cognitive tasks: showed that mental and perceptual images both involve spatial representation of the stimulus. They were then asked to look for another part of the boat, such as the motor, and to press the true button when they found this part or the false button when they couldn"t find it.