PSY340: Chapter 10 Tutorial Quiz

A circular plate rests at the center of a small square table. Around the table are a total of four chairs, one along each side of the square table. A person with unilateral neglect sits down in one of the chairs and eats from the plate. After he is "finished," he moves to the next chair on his right and continues to eat from the plate. Assuming he never moves the plate and he continues with this procedure (moving one chair to the right and eating) how many chairs will he have to sit in to eat all the food on the plate?

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Which of the following has been used as an argument AGAINST the idea that imagery is spatial in nature?

The tacit-knowledge explanation

The mental simulation approach for solving mechanical problems is analogous to the idea that visual imagery involves ________ representations.

spatial

In explaining the paradox that imagery and perception exhibit a double dissociation, Behrmann and coworkers suggested that perception necessarily involves ________ processing and imagery starts as a ________ process.

bottom-up; top-down

Perky's experiment, in which participants were asked to "project" visual images of common objects onto a screen, showed that:

imagery and perception can interact with one another.

"Early" researchers of imagery (beginning with Aristotle until just prior to the dominance of behaviorism) proposed all of the following ideas EXCEPT:

imagery requires a special mechanism.

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.

inner audition

Kosslyn's island experiment used the ________ procedure.

mental scanning

As described in your text, the pegword technique relies on all of the following EXCEPT:

propositions.

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

that imagery and perception may share the same mechanisms.