Early Ideas About Imagery Flashcards
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Mental imagery
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experiencing a sensory impression when the relevant stimulus isn’t actually there
2
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Visual imagery
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“seeing” in the absence of visual stimulus
3
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Imageless thought debate
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Aristotle: claimed thought impossible without images
Galton: noted some with lousy visual imagery think just fine
Smallwood: people reported imageless thought; evidence that people can think without images
4
Q
Paivio– early cognitive paradigm
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Studied paired words, first word used as recall cue test
Varied whether words were concrete or abstract (chair vs. love)
People remembered concrete words better
Easily imageable
5
Q
Shepard and Meltzer
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Mental rotation
Images have a connection to perception
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