imagery Flashcards
the verbal system deals with ____ and their components and breaks down verbal stimuli into ____. the non-verbal system deals with ____ and their components and breaks downs stimuli into ____
words, logogens
images, imagens
describe concrete words and do they have high or low imageability?
words that can represented in words and images. high imageability
describe abstract words and do they have high or low imageability
words that can be described in words but not images. low imageability
why are concrete words remembered better?
they can be represented in both verbal and non-verbal systems
brain modularity idea states that the nonverbal system is activated in the ___ hemisphere and the verbal system in the ____ hemisphere
right, left. but idea does not exactly hold. more like a different pattern of activation
which hypothesis states that all imagery is stored as descriptive statements regardless of content?
propositional representation hypothesis
true or false: imagery vividness increases with familiarity?
true
for visual imagery, there is _____ visualizers and verbalizers. for auditory imagery, there is _____ visualizers than verbalizers
equal, less
objects in odd places where they are not common to better remember it is called what?
Von Restorff Effect
hiding something in an unexpected location to better remember it is called what?
special places strategy. not effective though, we forget where we placed item
manipulating a mental image in space is called?
mental rotation
the longer an object has to be rotated the ____ it takes to do
longer
mental rotating occurs where in the brain?
right hemisphere but not entirely supported
true or false: like mental rotation, mental scanning takes more time the longer the distance you must scan?
true
what is egocentric perspective transformations?
moving oneself in space to view another object
