PSY 211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Mental Chronometry, Epiphenomenon, Underlying Representation
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Imageless thought debate - debate about whether thought is possible in the absence of images. People who had great difficulty forming visual images were still quite capable of thinking. The behaviorists branded the study of imagery as unproductive because visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them. It was easier to remember concrete nouns that can be imaged than it is to remember abstract nouns. Conceptual peg hypothesis - concrete nouns create images that other words can "hang on to" Mental chronometry - determining the amount of time needed to carry out various cognitive tasks. Time it took to decide that two views were of the same object was directly related to how different the angles were between the two views. 10. 2 imagery and perception: do they share the same mechanisms. Although mental images differ from perception in that they are not as vivid or long lasting, imagery shares many properties with perception.
