CHP 6 - Imagery

Question 1

Who were the two individuals that debated the type of representations we have in our mind?

Answer 1

Kosslyn (Spatial) & Pylyshyn (Propositional)

Question 1

Images represented spatially/visually , like a scene in a photo

Answer 1

Spatial Representation

Question 2

Images indirect bi-product of prepositional statements; not linked to any sensory

Answer 2

Propositional Representation

Question 3

Feature Verification Task indicates?

Answer 3

We are more easily able to state features of larger images in our mind vs smaller images

Question 4

What experiments did Kosslyn conduct to support spatial evidence?

Answer 4

Simple Object Features and Fictional Map

Question 5

Mental Rotation Task was pioneered by>

Answer 5

Sheperd & Metzler

Question 6

For the mental rotation task, do participants have a longer or shorter reaction time as angle of rotation increases?

Answer 6

Longer reaction time; the greater the angle the longer it takes; proportional relationship

Question 7

Method of Loci

Answer 7

A memory aid where images of to be remembered are created with location along a familiar route of place

Question 8

Peg word mnemonic

Answer 8

A memory aid where ordinal words are rhymed with pegwords to create iamges of pegwords and to be remembered items interacting

Question 9

What is the picture superiority effect? (Alan Paivio’s)

Answer 9

Memory of pictures is superior to memory for words of the same concept

Question 10

Drawing effect is

Answer 10

Drawing improves memory more than pictures

Question 11

Why is drawing effective?

Answer 11

Includes more sources of encoding such as integrating motor, elaborative, and pictorial processes in a single task

Question 12

Bizarreness Effect is

Answer 12

Unusual images are remembered better than

Question 13

McDaniel and Einstein’s Experiment showed that memory improved when bizarre images were made in a mixed list or unmixed list?

Answer 13

Mixed List

Question 14

In McDaniel’s and Einstein’s