PSYC 105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tacit Knowledge, Visual Perception, Epiphenomenon
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History of imagery: cognitive revolution: infer the cognitive process of imagery. Memory for words that evoke mental images (concrete) is better than those that do not (abstract) Participants mentally rotate objects to see if they match another object; suggested that imagery and perception may share the same mechanism. Zaps: the more rotation that is needed, the longer you take to confirm. Kosslyn experiment: memorize picture of boat and create image of it. In image, move from one part of picture to another: longer to mentally move long distances than shorter ones, like perception, imagery is spatial. Spatial representation is an epiphenomenon: accompanies real mechanism but is not actually a part of it. Imagery can be represented by abstract symbols and language. Tacit-knowledge explanation: use real-(cid:449)orld k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)iousl(cid:455); do(cid:374)"t need to visualize spatially: ex: we know it takes longer to drive from sd to sacramento than from sd to el centro.
