Mental Images and the Imagery Debate

<p>Imagery can influence how perception occurs. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They raise challenges to modeling mental imagery computationally. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It includes both pictorial and descriptive elements. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It challenges behaviorism in explaining cognitive processes. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Information is represented as numerical descriptions. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Creating mental images voluntarily. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The complexity of pictorial representation. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that mental images have a correspondence to physical reality. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It indicates a fundamental difference in how individuals process information. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mental images are based on arbitrary relations rather than direct correspondence. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mental representations can vary in format and nature. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It presents scenarios where internal mental states cannot be observed directly. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By inferring their mental state from their behaviors. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They form beliefs about the other person’s beliefs and consider what they would do in that situation. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It considers how the world appears to the person being simulated. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Radical simulation. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The simulator's imagined mental state informs them about the simulated person's mental state. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inhibiting the assumption that others' beliefs are true (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Theory of Mind Module (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By projecting oneself into others' positions (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It must differentiate true from false beliefs (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The earlier development of pretending compared to mindreading (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There are universal generalizations about behavior (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability to assume false beliefs (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>General knowledge about human desires (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Mental representations of visual or spatial information, like picturing an object in your mind.

A debate about the format of mental representations, specifically whether they are pictorial (like a picture) or descriptive (like a verbal description).

The idea that mental images are like pictures in the mind, corresponding to the physical object or scene.

The idea that mental images are not like pictures, but are instead coded in a way that is more like descriptions.

The inability to create mental images.

A physical state that stores information about the world. It's how our brains hold onto knowledge about things.

The question of how information is stored and organized in the mind, leading to the debate about whether mental images are like pictures or descriptions.

We understand another person's mental state by applying psychological theories to their behavior.

We understand another person's mental state by imagining ourselves in their situation.

We first imagine another person's beliefs and then ask ourselves, "What would I do if I had those beliefs?"

We imagine how the world appears to the other person and then predict their behavior based on that.

Is it possible to understand someone's mind without explicitly representing their mental states? A question raised by radical simulation.

A mental representation that represents another mental representation. It's like a representation of someone's thought about something.

A test used to assess a child's understanding that other people can hold beliefs that are different from reality.

The idea that passing the false belief task requires a special cognitive process that inhibits the natural tendency to assume everyone shares the same beliefs.

A hypothetical brain region dedicated to understanding the mental states of others.

The theory that we understand others' minds by simulating what we would do in their situation.

A type of play where children use objects and actions to symbolize other things and engage in make-believe.

Pretending requires only understanding a representation (e.g., a toy car representing a real car), while passing the false belief task requires understanding that someone else has a different mental representation about that car.

Metarepresentation is important for mindreading because it allows us to understand that others have beliefs and that these beliefs can be different from our own.