Understanding Visual Imagery

What is Imagery?

What is it used for?

Can you describe your mother’s face?

How many windows are there in your house?

What is the relationship between reaction time and angle of orientation in Shepard & Metzler’s experiment?

• There is no relationship

• A linear relationship

• An inverse relationship

• A quadratic relationship

What does the mental walk task provide evidence for?

• Imagery is spatial

• Imagery is propositional

• Imagery is automatic

• Imagery is fragile

What are the two systems proposed in Paivio’s dual-coding theory?

• Visual and Auditory

• Verbal and Nonverbal

• Concrete and Abstract

• Spatial and Propositional

What is the method of remembering where you place objects called?

• Method of Loci

• Pegword method

• Visualizing method

• Imagery method

What is the role of imagery in memory according to Paivio’s theory?

What is the significance of area V1 in the brain?