PS260 Study Guide - Final Guide: Attribute Substitution, Brainstem, Frontal Lobe
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Introspections about images described their experience own mental contents or experiences. In these studies, response times are directly proportional to the amount of zoom required, suggesting that travel in the imaged world resembles travel in the actual world, at least with regard to timing. Mental rotation to pictures or maps than they are to descriptions. In a very real sense, the image preserves the spatial layout of the represented scene and, therefore, rather directly represents the geometry of the scene. )t(cid:495)s in this way that images depict the scene rather than describing it -> they are much more similar: mental rotation a process that participants seem to use in comparing one imagined form to another. The concern about demand character: participants in these studies obviously know that movement through the world takes time and that moving a longer distance takes more time.
