Question

When rotating a glass pyramid 240 degrees with our hands, it takes a longer amount of time than it does to rotate it 40 degrees. According to Finke’s concept of transformational equivalence, it will take us _____________ amount of time to rotate a mental representation of a pyramid 240 degrees than it would to mentally rotate it 40 degrees

Answer 1

Question:

When rotating a glass pyramid 240 degrees with our hands, it takes a longer amount of time than it does to rotate it 40 degrees. According to Finke’s concept of transformational equivalence, it will take us _____________ amount of time to rotate a mental representation of a pyramid 240 degrees than it would to mentally rotate it 40 degrees

A) Longer

B) Shorter

C) The same

 

Answer:

The correct answer is A.

It takes us longer amount of time to rotate a mental representation of a pyramid 240 degrees than it would to mentally rotate it 40 degrees.            

Explanation:

Ronald Finke, a psychologist has proposed five principles of visual imagery. The fourth of them all - Transformational equivalence posits that the way we transform mental images (as during rotation experiments) corresponds to the same laws of motion we use when we physically rotate an object in space.