Ch 10 Visual Imagery

Question 1

Mental imagery

Answer 1

Experiencing a sensory impression in the absence of sensory input

Question 2

Im ageless thought debate

Answer 2

The debate about wether thought is possible in the absence of images.

Question 3

Conceptual peg hypothesis

Answer 3

A hypothesis associated with Paivio’s dual coding theory, that states that concrete nouns create images that other words can hang on to, which enhances memory for these words.

Question 4

Mental chronometry

Answer 4

Determining the amount of time needed to carry out a cognitive task.

Question 5

Imagery debate

Answer 5

The debate about wether imagery is based on spatial mechanism, such as those involved in perception, or on propositional mechanism that are related to language.

Question 6

Spatial representation.

Answer 6

A representation in which different parts of an image can be described as corresponding to specific locations in space.

Question 7

Epiphenomenon

Answer 7

A phenomenon that accompanies a mechanism but is not actually part of the mechanism. An example of an epiphenomenon is light that flash on a mainframe computer as it operates.

Question 8

Propositional representation.

Answer 8

A representation in which relationships are represented by symbols, as when the words of language represent objects and the relationship between objects.

Question 9

Depictive representation

Answer 9

Corresponds to spatial representation. So called because a spatial representation Can be depicted by a picture.

Question 10

Mental walk task

Answer 10

A task used in imagery experiment in which participants are asked to form a mental image of an object and to imagine that they are walking towards this mental image.

Question 11

Imagery neurons

Answer 11

Neurons in the human brain studied by Kreiman, which fire in the same way when a person sees a picture of an object and when a person creates a visual image of the object.

Question 12

Topographic map

Answer 12

Each point on a visual stimulus causes activity at a specific location on a brain structure, such as the location on a brain structure, such as the visual cortex, and points next to each other on the stimulus cause activity at points next to each other on the structure.

Question 13

Unilateral neglect

Answer 13

A problem caused by brain damage, usually to the right parietal lobe, in which the patient ignores objects in the left half of his or her visual field.

Question 14

Method of loci

Answer 14

A method for remembering things in which the things to be remembered are placed at different locations in a mental image of a spatial layout.

Question 15

Peg word technique

Answer 15

A method for remembering things in which the things to be remembered are associated with concrete words.

Question 16

Spatial imagery

Answer 16

The ability to image spatial relations

Question 17

Object imagery refers

Answer 17

The ability to image visual details, features, or objects.

Question 18

Paper folding test

Answer 18

A test in which a piece of paper is folded and then pierced by a pencil to create a hole.

Question 19

Vividness of visual imagery question are (VVQ)

Answer 19

A test in which people are asked to rate the vividness of mental images they create.

Question 20

Degraded picture task

Answer 20

A task in which a line drawing is degraded by omitting parts of drawing and obscuring it with a visual noise pattern.

Question 21

Mental rotation task

Answer 21

A task in which a person judges wether two pictures of three dimensional geometry

Question 22

Im ageless thought

Answer 22

the debate wether thought is possible in the absence of images.

Question 23

Depictive representation

Answer 23

Corresponds to spatial representation. So called because a spatial representation can be depicted by a picture.

Question 24

Unilateral neglect

Answer 24

A problem caused by brain damage, usually to the right parietal lobe, in which the patient ignores objects in the left half of his or her visual field.

Question 25

Visual agnósia

Answer 25

The inability to visually recognize objects.