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if
a mental image resembles a physical object, then people must make judgments
about a mental image in the same way that they make judgments about the
corresponding physical object
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Studying mental imagery
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What was shepard and Metzler's Researc on?
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same/different
task using pairs of line drawings images
two-
vs. three-dimensions
reaction
time to decide same/different
decision
time influenced by the amount of rotation required to match the figures
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Mental rotation can be influences by 5 factors
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- other stimuli (pics, numbers, letters) - age- practice - ASL - support for he analog coding approach
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What was Paivio's two concepts on imagery and shape?
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- hands on imagery clock - high imagery vs. low imagery participants
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What did Shepard and Chipman do
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Complex shapes US states
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Conclusions about the characteristics of mental images (so far)
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1.When
people rotate
a mental image, a large rotation takes them longer, just as they take longer
when making a large rotation with a physical stimulus.
2.People
make distance
judgments in a similar fashion for mental images and physical stimuli; this
conclusion holds true for both visual and auditory images.
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The 3rd conclusion about the characteristics of mental images (so far)
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People
make decisions about shape in a similar fashion for mental
images and physical stimuli; this conclusion holds true for both simple shapes
(angles formed by hands on a clock) and complex shapes (geographic regions,
like Colorado or West Virginia
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visual
imagery can___ with visual perception
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interfere
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auditory
imagery can ___ with auditory perception
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interfere
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What was Segal and Fusella's experiment with regards to wiual and auditory imagery
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- create
visual or auditory image
- detect
physical stimulus
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people
had ___ problems detecting the physical stimulus when the image and the signal
were in the same sensory mode
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More
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joy-stick
task involving rotation clockwise or counterclockwise
view
geometric figure and imagine rotating it clockwise or counterclockwise
judge
second figure as same or different
judgments
slower when the motor movement was opposite to the mental image
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Motor imagery
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people
sometimes use ... and sometimes use ... when they
create a mental image of an ambiguous figure
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Analog codespropositional codes,
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Reed's experiment on imagery and ambiguous figures
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decide
whether a pattern is a portion of a design seen earlier
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- ... indicated that people could not have stored mental pictures
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Chance performance
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