PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Visual Cortex, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Roger Shepard

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Gillian Rowe

Document Summary

Imagery seeing in the absence of visual stimulus. Founder of the first laboratory of psychology. Images are one of the three basic elements of consciousness, along with sensations and feelings. Proposed that studying images was a way of studying thinking. Gave rise to imageless-thought debate some psychologists took up aristotle"s idea that though is impossible without image , others said the opposite. Galton observed that people who were not capable of forming visual images were still capable of thinking. Arguments for and against ended with behaviourism john wilson (founder of behaviourism) images are mythological and unproven thus not worthy of study. Paivio found out that memory for concrete nouns (hotel-student) is better than for abstract nouns (knowledge-honour) Conceptual peg hypothesis concrete words create mental images that other words can hang onto (boat-hat: create image of the boat and where the hat could be placed)