PSYC-305 Final Exam Review Part 3

Suppose we ask people to perform the following cognitive tasks. Which is LEAST likely to strongly activate the visual cortex?

Imagine the meaning of the word "ethics."

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

The tacit-knowledge explanation

What are two properties of human language that allow people to create new and unique sentences?

hierarchical structure and governed by rules

"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

In drawing conclusions about the relationship between imagery and perception, a notable difference between them is that

it is harder to manipulate mental images than perceptual images.

"3x + 9 = 16" is a _____ representation.

propositional

Kosslyn interpreted the results of his research on imagery as supporting the idea that the mechanism responsible for imagery involves ____ representations.

spatial

Imagery neurons are

specific neurons that fire corresponding to certain images for both perceiving and imagining

A phoneme refers to

the shortest segment of speech that, if changed, changes the meaning of a word.

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

using visual images; deactivated