PSY 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Mental Rotation, Response Bias, Tacit Knowledge
29 Apr 2016
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Similar to the visuo-spatial sketch pad of working memory. Different from learning style or processing style, daydreaming, or vivid pretending. Projected dim images on the location where people were asked to imagine an object they didn"t know that the images were being shown and didn"t even notice. When they were asked to describe the image, they were in the same orientation as the ones that were projected on the screen. Vviq: vividness of visual imagery questionnaire issues with this approach: subjectivity; people could lie or cheat", measure grounding" what is reasonably vivid , lenient response bias; tendency for high scores, experimenter bias; good imagery is good. Imagery may have components that are different (color, space, size) Asked subjects to look at two images and see whether they were the same or different, the larger the angle of rotation, the longer it took to react and know answer.
