Psych 211 exam 4 review

The key difference between depictive representation and propositional representation is based on which of the following?

Content

In evaluating retrieval rates for category information for a concept, Collins and Quillian's semantic network approach would predict the slowest reaction times for which of the following statements using a sentence verification technique?

A field sparrow is an animal.

A mental image could be useful for which of the following tasks?

Describing what your childhood home looked like./Coming up with directions you your apartment./Trying to figure out a way to fit you hair dryer in your suitcase.(all of these)

Which of the following is NOT associated with the semantic network model?

Family resemblance

Paivio (1963) proposed the conceptual peg hypothesis. His work suggests which of the following would be most difficult to remember?

Freedom

Why is it difficult to understand mental imagery using only introspection?

Peoples introspections widely vary/People sometimes describe the same things differently/Introspection is subjective (all these)

You walk by a store window and notice several new items. One of which you conclude to be a motor-scooter. Which of the following best describes a prototype for a motor- scooter?

Tires, headlight, engine, and kick stand

Which of the following would be in a basic level category?

Truck

If it takes you one second to mentally rotate an object thirty degrees how long will it take you to mentally rotate the object sixty degrees?

Two seconds

The propositional approach may use any of the following EXCEPT

a spatial layout.

Research suggests that the ___________ approach to categorization works best for small categories (e.g., U.S. presidents).

exemplar

Prototypes are useful because they ...

act as an efficient way to categorize concepts that may have numerous variants.

Which of the choices best represents cognitive economy in the following sentence? The property _______is stored at the _______node.

can fly; bird

The prototype approach to categorization states that a standard representation of a category is based on

category members that have been encountered in the past

Two different definitions of ___________ offered by your book include (a) "the mental representation of a class or individual," and (b) "categories of objects, events, and abstract ideas."

concepts

Shepard and Metzler's "image rotation" experiment was so influential and important to the study of cognition because it demonstrated

imagery and perception may share the same mechanisms.

The "imagery debate" is concerned with whether imagery

is based on spatial or language mechanisms.

Shepard and Metzler measured the time it took for participants to decide whether two objects were the same (two different views of the same object) or different (two different objects). These researchers inferred cognitive processes by using

mental chronometry.

The scanning task used by Kosslyn involves

mental images.

Kosslyn's island experiment used the ___________procedure.

mental scanning

Prototypes allow an individual to become familiar with new objects because they are interpreted using a foundation from ..

previously learned information

A set of critical properties of concept representation is often called a ...

prototype

Items high on prototypicality have ___________ family resemblances.

strong

While doing a mental rotation experiment like the one in the demonstration participants will often report ...

that they mentally rotate one of the objects until they can determine if the two objects are the same or not.

The semantic network model predicts that the time it takes for a person to retrieve information about a concept should be determined by

the distance that must be traveled through the network.

An advantage of the exemplar approach over the prototype approach is that the exemplar approach provides a better explanation of the ___________ effect.

typicality

Amedi and coworkers (2005) used fMRI to investigate the differences between brain activation for perception and imagery. Their findings showed that when participants were ___________, some areas associated with nonvisual sensation (such as hearing and touch) were ___________.

using visual images; deactivated

The technique in which things to be remembered are placed at different locations in a mental image of a spatial layout is known as

the method of loci.