Mental Imagery
What is mental imagery?
Mental representation of a stimulus that is not actually presen
What is the propositional-code approach?
What is a cognitive map?
A mental representation of a physical space.
What is a category?
This is a set of objects that belong together.
What is semantic memory?
This is organized general knowledge about the world.
What is the angle/amount of mental rotation?
In Shepard and Metzler’s study, reaction time increased as this increased.
What are demand characteristics?
These are clues that cause participants to act how they think the experimenter wants.
What is the landmark effect?
This effect occurs when people estimate important places as closer than they really are.
What is a concept?
This is the mental representation of a category.
What is the prototype approach?
This approach says we categorize items by comparing them to the best or most typical example.
What is analog code?
This code suggests mental images resemble the actual perceptual object.
What are ambiguous figures?
Figures that create difficulty for the analog-code approach because people may struggle to reinterpret them mentally.
What is a boundary extension?
This error happens when people remember seeing more of a scene than was actually shown.
What is the basic-level category?
This category level is moderately specific, such as “dog” instead of “animal” or “golden retriever”.
What is the exemplar approach?
This approach says we categorize items by comparing them to specific examples we have seen before.