Your initial discussion post must be at least 125 words and your peer response must be at least 75 words.
In this unit, you have learned about several factors related to human cognition. Choose something you have learned related to thinking, intelligence, or language, and teach your classmates what you have discovered.
Response to this (75 words) – “how people think,” specifically the section on Mental Imagery, to be fascinating.
The fact that mental imagery is the opposite of actual imagery is intriguing. When we use our visual stimuli, we engage our eyes and the visual cortex of the occipital lobe. However, when we create a mental image, we rely on the cortex associated with stored knowledge. Additionally, creating a mental image happens from the top down, while visual stimuli is from the bottom up.
