Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

(Tina Meador) #1

Key TERMS


Conceptual peg hypothesis, 272
Depictive representation, 275
Epiphenomenon, 274
Imageless thought debate, 271
Imagery debate, 273
Imagery neuron, 279
Mental imagery, 270
Mental scanning, 273


Mental simulation, 288
Mental walk task, 277
Method of loci, 286
Paired-associate learning, 272
Pegword technique, 287
Propositional representation, 274
Rule-based approach (to mechanical
reasoning), 288

Spatial representation, 274
Tacit knowledge explanation, 275
Transcranial magnetic stimulation
(TMS), 281
Unilateral neglect, 283
Visual imagery, 270

Media RESOURCES


The Cognitive Psychology


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CogLab


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instructions before you go to the experiment itself. Otherwise,
you won’t know which keys to press.


Primary Labs


Mental rotation How a stimulus can be rotated in the mind
to determine whether its shape matches another stimulus
(p. 272).

Link word A demonstration of how imagery can be used to
help learn foreign vocabulary (p. 287).

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