Chapter 11: Visual Knowledge

Question 1

Self-report data

Answer 1

Form of evidence in which a person is directly asked about their own thoughts or experiences

Question 2

Chronometric studies

Answer 2

Time-measuring studies

Question 3

Image-scanning procedure

Answer 3

Imagine something and scan it with your “mind’s eye” to map the distance from one point to another across the mental image

Question 4

Mental rotation task

Answer 4

Participants must determine whether a shape differs from a target only in its position and orientation or whether the shape has a form different from that of the target

Question 5

Demand character

Answer 5

Cues within an experiment that signal to participants how they’re “supposed to” respond

Question 6

Eidetic imagery

Answer 6

Relatively rare capacity in which one can retain long-lasting and detailed visual images of scenes that can be scrutinized as if they were still physically present

Question 7

Percepts

Answer 7

Internal representations of the world that result from perceiving

They’re organized depictions

Question 8

Dual coding

Answer 8

Theory that imageable materials (e.g. high-imagery words) will be doubly represented in. memory

Question 9

Boundary extension

Answer 9

Tendency to remember pictures as less “zoomed in” than they were