Chapter 7
Three kinds of Imagery are?
Mental, Visual, and Auditory
What does STEM stand for?
Science, Technology, Engineering and mathematics
What is sematic memory? give an example
refers to the knowledge known about the world, for example current president's name.
Schema is?
well-integrated knowledge about a situation, an event, or a person
Mental Imagery definition is?
The mental representation of stimuli when those stimuli are not physically present in the environment
What is mental rotation?
Mental rotation (MR) is the ability to transform a mental representation of an object so as to accurately predict how the object would look from a different angle
what is episodic memory? give an example
Refers to information of event that happens personally to us. Example: Over the weekend my family from Canada came to visit.
What does semantic priming effect mean?
means that people respond faster to an item if it was preceded by an item with similar meaning.
What is visual imagery
The mental representation of visual stimuli
Why is mental rotation difficult to conduct?
Because images fade quickly and researchers are not able to see the mental images.
Fruit in food items is and example of?
Category
What are levels of categorization and what are they for?
Basic-level names are used to identify objects
superordinate-level categories, higher level
subordinate-level categories, lower levels
What did Einstein use to report his own thinking process?
Spatial Images
What is imagery debate?
to refer to an important controversy
A ____ is the item that is the best, most typical example of a category.
prototype
activation expands or spreads from that node to other connected nodes, a process called?
spreading activation
Watson even argued that ____ did not exist
imagery
What does motor cortex have to do with mental rotation?
people use their motor cortex when they imagine a geometric shape in a different angle.
What does Rosch (1973) emphasizes about prototypicality?
That they differ in members of category.
ACT-R means?
“Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational”