My Head Is Spinning

50PsychSim 5 My Head is Spinning PsychSim 5 MY HEAD IS whirl Section PSYC 101 D22 LUO Date 11-15-2012 This activity provides some background teaching about thinking with verbal concepts versus thinking with mental images. Conceptual opinion What was your train of thought as you navigated the outline of the candle? Initially beholding the candle I was not awargon of what needed to be do until the mouse was move and I saw the match. I then preceded to tag the mouse to the candle, placed the match on top of the candle and lighten up the flame. The two images, the cande and the match, created a likely outcome.Cooper & Shepards Results In the Cooper & Shepard taste (1973), participants were asked to decide whether a stimulus (a letter) was normal (simply rotated in the picture plane) or reverseds (flipped to its mirror image before the rotation). Reaction beat were graphed and make upd as the garner were rotated by from 0 degrees. Interestingly, reply time decreased af ter clxxx degrees. Can you explain why this might occur? Reaction time increased as the the letters were rotated away from zero because there is a greater burden the closer you get to one hundred eighty degrees, taking longer to mentally roate the images .The decresed reception time occurs because an object rotated beyond 180 can be flipped the other direction, taking less time to mentally rotate it. Rotating the images mentally takes more time per degree of rotation. Mental Rotation Experiment by and by completing the Mental Rotation experiment and viewing your data, how would you describe the drill of your results? Do you think that your results fit the pattern of results from the Shepard experiments? I do guess my results fit Shepards experiment.It took me longer to contemplate the images when they reached 180 degress compared to zero degrees. The backward images had an increased response time due to manipulating the image. My time decreased at 240 degrees to 360 degrees. For example Normal Zero = . 57 instant. 180 degrees = 1. 70 sec 360 = . 56 sec Backward Zero = . 85 sec 180 degrees = 1. 40 sec 360 = . 85sec After comparing the graphs of your results and the results of the Cooper & Shepard (1973) study, how similar are the two graphs?Did your results show a clear increase in answer time as the ori- entation moved away from the vertical? Did your results show a decrease in reaction time as the orientation moved from 180 degrees back to the vertical? My graph was considerably similar. There was an increase in reaction time as the letter moved away from the vertical shape. My graph showed a heightened response time when the rotation reached 180 degrees and decreased as the letter returned back to its vertical shape mimicking my time for zero and sixty degrees.