Chapter 10

Suppose you do two different free recall tasks that each take you 22 seconds to complete. What is your total mental chronometry in this example?

44 seconds

For which of the following questions would the response be MOST likely to generate greater response in the visual cortex?

Is the green of the trees darker than the green of the grass

Suppose you're doing a study with paired-associate learning, and, at some point, you hear the terms "sky-grass." What would likely happen next?

You will be presented again with the word "sky" to see if you can remember the word "grass."

Conceptually, which of the following is most like a topographic map?

a fingerprint

All of the following would be examples of a propositional representation EXCEPT

a picture of a rabbit in a cage.

Suppose lights flash as a mainframe computer does its calculations. In doing so, this is an example of ___.

an epiphenomenon

Now that she has three kids, Anjali has too many things to keep track of. She heard that using a method of loci can be helpful and has decided to give it a try. What is the first thing Anjali needs for this tactic to be effective?

an image of her family room

What is the basis for a mental scanning task?

an internal image

Looking at a small object causes activity in the ___ of the visual cortex; larger objects cause activity to ___.

back; spread forward

Research with multivoxel pattern analysis has demonstrated ________ overlap between imagery and perception in the brain.

considerable

What served as the basis for Lea's argument against Kosslyn's original mental scanning experiments with objects?

distraction

Which of the following words offers the best conceptual peg?

ice

If you were asked to do a mental walk task, then you would probably

imagine yourself walking toward a given stimuli

Which of the following best describes the concept of visual imagery?

it lacks a visual stimulus

Even though you're away at college, you can instantly imagine the taste of the pies and cakes that your mother makes. This example illustrates ___.

mental imagery

Which of the following tasks requires the most cognitive effort?

mental rotation task

When you move closer to an object, the object fills ___ of your visual field and details are ___ to see.

more; easier

If yoy had visual agnosia, then you would

not be able to visually recognize objects

The pegword technique is similar to which of the following?

paired-associate learning

Following a car accident, Bonnie was unable to notice objects in her left field of view. What part of Bonnie's brain was likely damaged in the accident?

parietal lobe

With respect to the imagery debate, an appropriate analogy would be: spatial mechanism is to propositional mechanism as ___ is to ___.

perception; language

In Kozhevnikov's research on imagery, the subjects she classified as "verbalizers" likely focused on which of the following?

propositional representation

The volume of a person's visual cortex has a direct impact on the ________.

size of the field of view

If someone could get a mobile fMRI while at a carnival, which of the following would activate the farthest forward region in their visual cortex?

the ferris wheel

As Marc thinks about his summer vacation, which of the following is an example of his use of spatial imagery?

the odd cabinet setup in the kitchen of the house where he stayed

If you would rhyme certain images with concrete words as a means to improve memory, then you're probably making use of ___.

the pegword technique

Paivio kicked off the cognitive revolution in imagery when he demonstrated that it is easiest for people to remember ________.

things

What is the key concept assessed during mental chronometry?

time

Which of the following is a key factor in the mental walk task?

visual field

Which of the following statements generally reflects people's individual capacities in visual imagery?

you win some, you lose some