Cognitive Psychology Ch 10 Quiz

The conceptual peg hypothesis would predict enhanced memory for which word pair? a.Amazing graceb.Mission impossiblec.Cake mugd.True lies

c

Mental scanning experiments found a.a direct relationship between scanning time and distance on the image.b.that imagery does not represent spatial relations in the same way perceptual information does.c.a constant scanning time for all locations on an image.d.an absence of mental scanning when processing a mental geometric image.

a

The propositional approach may use any of the following EXCEPT a.a spatial layout.b.a statement.c.abstract symbols.d.an equation.

a

Which of the following representation types is associated with abstract concepts? a.Spatialb.Hypotheticalc.Propositionald.Depictive

c

A mental rotation task is focused on the ________ aspect of imagery. a.abstractb.detailc.propositionald.spatial

d

Suppose we ask people to perform the following cognitive tasks. Which is LEAST likely to strongly activate the visual cortex? a.Imagine your car first from far away and then how it looks as you walk closer to it.b.Imagine a tic-tac-toe game proceeding from start to finish.c.Imagine a typical unsharpened pencil. Approximate its length in inches.d.Imagine the meaning of the word "ethics."

d

Suppose we asked people to form simultaneous images of two or more animals such as a rabbit alongside an elephant. Then, we ask them basic questions about the animals. For example, we might ask if the rabbit has whiskers. Given our knowledge of imagery research, we would expect the fastest response to this question when the rabbit is imagined alongside a.a rhinoceros.b.an anteater.c.a wolf.d.a bumblebee.

d

Kosslyn's island experiment used the ___________ procedure. a.categorizationb.mental scanningc.primingd.mental walk

b

Ganis and coworkers (2004) used fMRI to measure brain activation for perception and imagery of objects. Their results showed that a.perception and imagery activate the same areas near the back of the brain, but imagery activates more of the frontal lobe than does perception.b.perception and imagery activate the same areas of the frontal lobe, but imagery activates more of the back of the brain than perception does.c.perception and imagery activate the same areas of the frontal lobe, but perception activates more of the back of the brain than imagery does.d.there is no difference between the activation caused by perception and by imagery.

c

Shepard and Metzler's "image rotation" experiment was so influential and important to the study of cognition because it demonstrated a.that humans cannot successfully rotate mental images beyond 90 degrees.b.that humans can only perform mental rotation on "real-world" objects.c.imagery and perception may share the same mechanisms.d.how easy mental rotation is for humans.

c

As described in your text, the pegword technique relies on all of the following EXCEPT a.visualizations.b.associations.c.rhymes.d.propositions.

d

Perky's experiment, in which participants were asked to "project" visual images of common objects onto a screen, showed that a.imagery and perception are two different phenomena.b.creating a visual image can interfere with a perceptual judgment task.c.there are large individual differences in people's ability to create visual images.d.imagery and perception can interact with one another.

d

Imagery neurons respond to a.all visual images.b.an actual visual image as well as imagining that same image.c.concrete mental images but not abstract mental images.d.only visual images in a specific category.

b

Kosslyn interpreted the results of his research on imagery (such as the island experiment) as supporting the idea that the mechanism responsible for imagery involves ___________ representations. a.unilateralb.spatialc.propositionald.epiphenomenal

b

Kosslyn's transcranial magnetic stimulation experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex a.supports the idea that the mechanism responsible for imagery involves propositional representations.b.plays a causal role in both perception and imagery.c.is an epiphenomenon.d.can be inferred using mental chronometry.

b

Mental imagery involves a.mental representations of the current sensory inputs.b.experiencing a sensory impression in the absence of sensory input.c.the misrepresentation of a stimulus as possessing physical attributes that are, in fact, absent.d.sensory representations of a stimulus.

b

Paivio (1963) proposed the conceptual peg hypothesis. His work suggests which of the following would be most difficult to remember? a.Americab.Freedomc.Baseballd.Apple pie

b

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 a.propositional representations.b.mental chronometry.c.epiphenomena.d.image scanning.

b

Trinh is a famous chef. Since she does not like to share her secret family recipes, she does not write down her special creations, which makes it difficult to remember their ingredients. To aid her memory, she has created a unique "mental walk" that she takes to recall each recipe. For each one, she has a familiar "route" she can imagine walking through (e.g., from the end of her driveway to her living room) where she places each item in the recipe somewhere along the way (e.g., fish sauce splattered on the front door). By doing so, Trinh is using ___________ to organize her memories. a.mental synthesisb.the method of locic.paired-associate learningd.the pegword technique

b

Your text describes imagery performance of a patient with unilateral neglect. This patient was asked to imagine himself standing at one end of a familiar plaza and to report the objects he saw. His behavior shows a.neglect occurred in imagery such that some objects in the plaza were never reported.b.neglect always occurred on the left side of the image, with "left side" being determined by the direction in which the patient imagined he was positioned.c.neglect manifests itself in perception only, not in imagery.d.neglect involved both the left and right sides of the visual field, with an apparently "random" agnosia of different components of the fields.

b