PSYC 3030 : PSYC 3030 Exam 4
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Flash of insight came visually to him: mckellar surveyed 500 adults and found that, 97% reported visual, 93% auditory, 74% motor, 70% tactile, 66% olfactory, 64% gustatory. Paired-associative learning paivio: pairs of concrete (imaginable) words are remembered better than pairs of abstract words, justice hollow (a, pencil boat , equality truth (a, hat scissors . A screwdriver you"ve always seen is easier to rotate than a screwdriver you"ve never seen: blurry images are harder to rotate. Moving pudding or smoke: people with less spatial ability are twice as slow and rotate along rigid axes, in all cases, the analogy to physical rotation remains. Unrotate letters and decide which was the letter they"d seen: human subjects had to do everything exactly like the baboons, results: same wizard hat cone, 180 degrees at its peak. Humans pretty much have straight lines for how much they have to unrotate it by how long it took them to respond.
