Chapter 11 Flashcards
Visual Knowledge
Self-Report Data
Asking participants to introspect (look within) in able to report on their own mental contents.
Chronometric Studies
Allow researchers to ask what sorts of information are prominent in a mental image and what sorts are not.
Image-Scanning Procedure
Where participants are asked to form a specific mental image and then are asked to scan, with their mind’s eye, from one point in the image to another.
Mental Rotation
Participants imagine one of the forms rotating into alignment with the other, then once the forms are oriented in the same way, participants can make their judgment.
Demand Character
Cues that might signal how they are supposed to behave in that situation.
Binocular Rivalry
When two different visual stimuli are presented, one stimulus to each eye.
Eidetic Imagery
People with photographic memories where they can look at a page of a book and have a mental picture in their head as of an actual picture.
Percepts
My mental representation of the stimuli I am perceiving.
Image Files
Mental file that has the information to form and store mental images.
Dual Coding
Theory where imaginable materials, such as high-imagery words, will be doubly represented in memory. The word and image will be remembered.
Boundary Extension
Tendency for people to remember picture as being less zoomed in having wider boundaries than they actually were.
Chronology
Study of time.
Functional Equivalence
Lies between imagery and perception.