Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Interference Theory, Guided Imagery, Block Diagram

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Ruby Nadler

Document Summary

Verbal knowledge: measured by vocab q"s or q"s that test comprehension of written material. Spatial knowledge: measured by performance of such operations as mentally folding connected squares into a cube or mentally rotating an object to see if it matches another object: spatial tests can be difficult. The study of visual imagery was important when first originated, but there was a gap of time that dismissed it as a whole because of watson"s novel. Behaviorism which neglected the study of mental processes, and instead only of behavior. The use of visual imagery to learn material is a form of elaboration. Shepard"s experiment: subjects viewed 612 pictures at a self-paced rate and were later given a recognition-memory test on pairs of pictures. Each pair had a pic they saw and a new one they hadn"t; they had to identify which they had seen.