Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mental Rotation, Image Scanner, Psych
6 Sep 2018
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His method was simple: he asked his research participants to introspect or look within and report. The self-report data he obtained fit well with common sense. The observations suggested that people differ enormously in the nature of their imagery. These observations invite the notion that some people may be incapable of forming visual images. The reports also show us that there is a translation step involved whenever people translate their subjective inner experience into a verbal report. To gain more objective data, experiments have people do something with their images usually make a judgement. We can examine how fast people are in making these judgements, and with appropriate comparisons we can use these as a basis for testing hypotheses. Images depict a scene rather than describe it. To perform a mental rotation task, participants seemed to imagine one of the forms rotating into alignment with the other.
