Visual Imagery - Ch. 10

Question 1

Visual Imagery

Answer 1

Seeing in the absence of a visual stimulus.

Question 2

Mental Imagery

Answer 2

The ability to re-create the sensory world in the absence of physical stimuli.

Question 3

Imageless Thought Debate

Answer 3

Thought is impossible without an image vs thinking can occur without images.

Question 4

Paired Associate Learning

Answer 4

Pairs of words; presented with first word; recall word that was paired during study period;

Question 5

Conceptual Peg Hypothesis

Answer 5

Concrete nouns create images that other words can “hang onto.”

Question 6

Mental Chronometry

Answer 6

Determining the amount of time needed to carry out various cognitive tasks.

Question 7

Mental Scanning

Answer 7

Participants create mental images, then scan them in their minds.

Question 8

Imagery Debate

Answer 8

Whether imagery is based on spatial mechanisms (perception) or mechanisms related to language (propositional mechanisms).

Question 9

Spatial Representations

Answer 9

Representations in which different parts of an image can be described as corresponding to specific locations in space.

Question 10

Epiphenomenon

Answer 10

Something that accompanies the real mechanism, but is not actually part of the mechanism.

Question 11

Propositional Representations

Answer 11

Representations in which relationships can be represented by abstract symbols, such as an equation or statement.

Question 12

Depictive Representations

Answer 12

Spatial representations in which parts of the representation correspond to parts of the object.

Question 13

Mental Walk Task

Answer 13

Imagine they are walking towards their mental image of an animal. Estimate how far they were from animal when they began to experience an overflow (when image filled visual field/edges became fuzzy).

Question 14

Imagery Neurons

Answer 14

Neurons that fire when imagining images - fire when looking at same image.

Question 15

Unilateral Neglect

Answer 15

Patient ignores objects in one half of visual field; damage to parietal lobes.

Question 16

Method of Loci

Answer 16

Method in which things to be remembered are placed at different locations in a mental image of a spatial layout.

Question 17

Pegword Technique

Answer 17

Associate different items with concrete words.

Question 18

Spatial Imagery

Answer 18

Ability to image spatial relations.

Question 19

Object Imagery

Answer 19

Ability to image visual details, features, or objects.

Question 20

Paper Folding Test (PFT)

Answer 20

Measures spatial memory; piece of paper being folded and pierced by a pencil; pick from five choices what the paper would look like when unfolded.

Question 21

Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ)

Answer 21

Measures object imagery; rate on 5-point scale the vividness of mental images asked to create.

Question 22

Degraded Picture Tasks

Answer 22

Determining what a number of degraded line drawings is.

Question 23

Mental Rotation Task

Answer 23

Judge whether pictures were two views of the same object or mirror-image objects.

Question 24

Imagery Potential

Answer 24

Ease with which a concept can be imaged.

Question 25

Dual-Coding Theory

Answer 25

Memory for items is improved when it can be represented by both visual and verbal codes.