CH 10 part 1
1. Peggy is participating in a paired-associate learning experiment. During the study period, she is presented with pairs of words such as boat-hat and car-house. While taking the test, she would be presented with a. b___ - h___. b. boat _______ - car ________. c. house. d. a blank piece of paper for free recall.
B
1. Which statement below is most closely associated with the early history of the study of imagery? a. Imagery is based on spatial mechanisms like those involved in perception. b. Thought is always accompanied by imagery. c. People can rotate images of objects in their heads. d. Imagery is closely related to language.
B
1. "Early" researchers of imagery (beginning with Aristotle until just prior to the dominance of behaviorism) proposed all of the following ideas EXCEPT a. studying images was a way of studying thinking. b. images are one of the three basic elements of consciousness. c. imagery requires a special mechanism. d. thought is impossible without an image.
C
1. Behaviorists branded the study of imagery as being unproductive because a. some people have great difficulty forming visual images. b. visual images vary in detail. c. visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them. d. the imageless thought debate was unresolved.
C
1. One of Sarah's friends asks her to describe her new house by asking her how many windows are on the front of it. After a minute, Sarah answers 12. She has most likely used______in answering the question. a. the visual search b. her visual icon c. visual imagery d. mental chronometry
C
1. The conceptual peg hypothesis would predict enhanced memory for which word pair? a. True lies b. Amazing grace c. Cake mug d. Mission impossible
C
1. Ira and his sister are playing "Name that Tune," the object of which is to name the title of the song when given the song's first line. Ira suggests the line "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?" His sister can't come up with the answer at first, but realizing that the title is often embedded in the lyrics, she tries to sing them silently to herself. She then bursts out "Ah! It's 'Winter Wonderland'!" It is most likely that Ira's sister used_________in playing the game. a. mental chronometry b. mental synthesis c. visual imagery d. inner audition
D
1. Paivio (1963) proposed the conceptual peg hypothesis. His work suggests which of the following would be most difficult to remember? a. Baseball b. America c. Apple pie d. Freedom
D
1. Mental imagery involves a. experiencing a sensory impression in the absence of sensory input. b. mental representations of the current sensory inputs. c. sensory representations of a stimulus. d. the misrepresentation of a stimulus as possessing physical attributes that are, in fact, absent.
A
1. Examples like Paul McCartney's composition of the song "Yesterday" and Jack Nicklaus's improvement of his golf swing demonstrate a connection between imagery and a. dual coding. b. dreams. c. inner audition. d. the visual buffer.
B
