Mental Imagery Flashcards
What is time-space synesthesia?
Visual experience of having time units as occupying spatial locations outside the body
What are number forms?
Generated images of numbers in various spatial layouts external to an individual
What is imagery?
The ease at which something can elicit a mental image or representation.
What is dual-coding theory?
States that there are two ways of representing events, verbal and non-verbal
What are logogens?
Units containing the information underlying our use of a word; the components of the verbal system
What are imagens?
Units containing information that generate mental images; the components of the non-verbal system
According to Paivio, words that easily tend to evoke imagery are…? And those that don’t tend to be are…?
Concrete
Abstract
What facilitates learning?
Imagery
How do we learn best? (Study: recall performance of the four groups in Paivio’s)
Learning = best with 2 concrete words
- Generate an image and recall of 1st automatically brings up the 2nd
- Worst when 2 abstract
- Better when 1st word is concrete
Which hemisphere is responsible for imagery and verbal encoding?
Right hemisphere: imagery
Left hemisphere: verbal encoding
Concrete words elicit greater ____ activation relative to abstract words.
Right
What is the distinctiveness hypothesis about?
The most distinctive an item is, the easier it wil be to recall. Bizarre items are normally remembered better than common items
What is the Von Restorff effect?
If one item in a set is different from others, it will be more likely to be recalled.
What other material can be even more effective than bizarre, especially if stands out among neutral items?
Humorous
What theory states that we represent events using two different systems?
Dual-coding theory
