Case Study: My Head Is Spining

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50 PsychSim 5: My Head is Spinning PsychSim 5: MY HEAD IS SPINNING Date: November 17, 2012 This activity provides some background information about thinking with verbal concepts versus thinking with mental images. Conceptual Thinking • What was your train of thought as you navigated the picture of the candle? My train of thought as I navigated the picture of the candle was to move my mouse, which then turned into a flame, to the unlit candle wit. At first I sat for a minute because I thought my computer froze, but once I moved my mouse, I saw that cursor turned into a flame. Cooper & Shepard’s Results • In the Cooper & Shepard experiment (1973), participants were asked to decide whether a stimulus (a letter)

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