Mental Imagery
This term refers to the mental representation of stimuli that are not physically present.
What is mental imagery?
Researchers Shepard and Metzler studied this process where people mentally turn objects to determine if they are the same.
What is mental rotation?
This theory suggests mental images resemble the actual object we are imagining.
What is the analog code?
A mental representation of geographical information and spatial relationships.
What is a cognitive map?
This heuristic causes people to estimate distances as shorter when traveling toward important locations.
What is the landmark effect?
Mental imagery that involves imagining sounds such as laughter or a car horn is called this type of imagery.
What is auditory imagery?
According to mental rotation research, reaction time increases as this increases.
What is the angle of rotation?
This theory proposes mental images are stored in an abstract, language-like form.
What is propositional code?
In mental scanning tasks, people take longer to imagine traveling between locations that are this on the map.
What is farther apart?
This heuristic causes people to remember slightly tilted objects as being more vertical or horizontal than they actually are.
What is the rotation heuristic?
Mental imagery is considered this type of processing because it uses stored knowledge from memory rather than sensory input.
What is top-down processing?
The Shepard and Metzler study demonstrated that larger rotations require this compared to smaller rotations.
What is more time to make a decision?
Neuroscience research shows mental imagery activates many of the same brain regions involved in this.
What is visual perception?
This concept refers to the mental processes used to remember and navigate spatial environments.
What is spatial cognition?
This bias causes people to estimate distances as larger when locations are separated by a geographic border.
What is border bias?