quiz 10 - visual imagery

what did she use to remember the name of the song

inner audition

The "imagery debate" is concerned with whether imagery

is based on spatial or language mechanisms

in drawing conclusions about the relationship between imagery and perception, a notable difference between them is that

it is harder to manipulate mental images that perceptual

depictive representation

Corresponds to spatial representation. So called because a spatial representation can be depicted by a picture.

Carly is an interior design student. As part of her internship, she is redesigning a small kitchen for a client. She would like to expand the kitchen and add a dining area. Before creating sketches for the client, she imagines the new layout in her mind, most likely using

a depictive representation

imagery neurons respond to

an actual visual image as well as imagining that same image

mental imagery involves

experiencing a sensory impression i the absence of sensory input

The technique in which things to be remembered are placed at different locations in a mental image of a spatial layout is known as

method of loci

Kosslyn's transcranial magnetic stimulation experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex

plays a causal role in both perception and imagery

The lesson to be learned from the imagery techniques for memory enhancement (for example, the pegword technique) is that these techniques work because

they showcase the fact that memory improvement requires a great deal of practice and perseverance

Behaviorists branded the study of imagery as being unproductive because

visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them