Cognition -  PSY 340- Learning Objectives

Visual Knowledge


State what Galton found when he asked people to report on the vividness of their visual images.

Describe a study showing that the type of visual knowledge available from an image is different from that available from generic knowledge.

Describe several chronometric studies investigating the claim that our visual knowledge is stored as images that are actually picture-like.

State results of the studies referred to above and the conclusion that can be drawn from them.

Explain how a picture of a Necker cube is different from your "organized percept" of the Necker cube.

Describe a study with an ambiguous stimulus to examine whether visual images are really like pictures or more like organized percepts.

State the results of the study referred to above and state what conclusion it supports.

Describe a study designed to examine whether visual images include a "frame of reference"

State the results of the study referred to above and state what conclusion it supports.

Explain how visual images are "picture-like" and how they include more than just the sensory information in a picture.

Describe the effects of verbal labels on visual images.

State what kinds of visual images are best for improving long term memory.

Discuss the ways that visual images in long term memory obey the same principles as other kinds of knowledge in LTM.