Chapter 7 Mental Imagery & Mental Maps

What was Shepard and Metzler's research?

Line figures and angle rotation

Line figures and memory imaging

Language and propositional code

Sign Language

What did Kosslyn &Co. Find when it came to scanning distance?

Scanning of far and near locations were nearly identical

Scanning of near locations was faster than far locations

Scanning of far locations were faster than close locations

Scanning of near locations was slower than far locations

Which of these statements about mental imagery is incorrect?

Larger items take more time to rotate

Distance judgement in the mental vs. The physical are very similar

Judgement of shape in the mental and the physical are similar

Mental imagery is 100% propositional code

None of the above

An experimenter tells an observer that the results seem to be biased towards a certain result, what is this experimenter doing?

Hindsight Bias

Foresight Bias

Experimenter Expectancy

Experimenter Validation

Segal & Fusella did an experiment where participants had to first create either a visual or auditory image. Researchers then presented a physical stimulus from the image made by the participant and measured their ability to detect physical stimuli. What were the results of the study?

When the modality created by the participant matched the modality presented it made it EASIER to perceive the physical stimuli

When the modality created by the participant matched the modality presented by the experimenter it made it HARDER to perceive physical stimuli

It did not matter if the modality's matched, there was no conceivable difference in perception of stimuli.

Segal & Fusella did not perform this experiment, it was done by Kosslyn & Co.

Stephen Reed's research on the detection of correspondence of paired figures found that:

Analog code is used for complex figures

Propositional code is used for easier figures

Propositional code is used for complex figures

Participants were correct 95% of the time when pairing figures

Joe tends to see several structures as more lined up than they really are, what is causing this?

Symmetrical Heuristic

90-Degree Heuristic

Alignment Heuristic

Rotation Heuristic

What did Hirtle & Mascolo find?

Physically rotating blocks activates the same areas as mentally rotating blocks

People tend to put same semantic significance closer together in their mind

People of England thought most angles in the streets was 90 degrees

Paired figures used propositional code if complex

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