Chapter 10 Quiz

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If you would rhyme certain images with concrete words as a means to improve memory, then you're probably making use of ________ .

the pegword technique

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

The tacit-knowledge explanation

Looking at a small object causes activity in the ________ of the visual cortex; larger objects cause activity to ________ .

back, spread forward

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

The conceptual peg hypothesis suggests that memory is best for word pairs involving ________ .

concrete nouns

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 each other

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 ________.

inner audition

When you move closer to an object, the object fills ________ of your visual field and details are ________ to see.

more, easier

If you had visual agnosia, then you would

not be able to visually recognize objects

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


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