How does mental imagery compare with perception?
a. Perception relies exclusively on bottom-up processing.
b. Perception relies exclusively on top-down processing.
c. Mental imagery relies exclusively on bottom-up processing.
d. Mental imagery relies exclusively on top-down processing. - CO...
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How does mental imagery compare with perception?
a. Perception relies exclusively on bottom-up processing.
b. Perception relies exclusively on top-down processing.
c. Mental imagery relies exclusively on bottom-up processing.
d. Mental imagery relies exclusively on top-down processing. - CORRECT ANSWER
Answer: d
According to the introduction of the chapter on imagery,
a. people often create mental images, but they seldom use these images in problem
solving or other higher mental processes.
b. students report that they use visual imagery and auditory imagery equally often.
c. psychologists have conducted more research on visual imagery than any other kind of
imagery.
d. the first psychologists to pay attention to imagery were the radical behaviorists, in the
late 1920s. - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: c
Which of the following students provides the most accurate information about the
current importance of mental imagery and spatial skills?
a. Assaf: "Spatial ability plays a very important part in careers related to science and
technology."
b. Lucille: "Within the area of mental imagery, people now conduct more research on
auditory imagery than on visual imagery."
c. Sondra: "Elementary school teachers in the U.S. are now emphasizing spatial skills
much more than in the previous decade."
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d. Evgeni: "Unfortunately, people cannot greatly improve their spatial skills, once they
have reached early adolescence." - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: a
Which of the following students would need to have the greatest spatial skill?
a. Thomas, an English major
b. Stephanie, a History major
c. Elise, an Engineering major
d. Patrick, a Music major - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: c
According to the discussion of the history of research on mental imagery,
a. the early behaviorists rejected research about mental imagery, but they began to
conduct imagery research during the early 1950s.
b. the topic of mental imagery has consistently been more popular in the United States
than in Europe.
c. the popularity of mental imagery increased as cognitive psychology became more
influential.
d. surprisingly, theorists and researchers did not mention mental imagery until about
1930. - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: c
One of the most difficult problems in conducting research on imagery is that
a. the individual differences are so large that it's virtually impossible to find any
consistent results.
b. it is difficult to examine such an inaccessible mental process.
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c. people's introspections about imagery are so vivid that they prevent researchers from
manipulating most variables.
d. only a relatively small proportion of people seem to use imagery on a regular basis. -
CORRECT ANSWER Answer: b
In the Shepard and Metzler study, people judged whether two figures that were in
different orientations were the same or different. What did this study demonstrate?
a. It takes much longer to rotate pairs in depth (e.g., by turning a figure away from you)
than to rotate pairs in the picture plane (e.g., by turning a figure clockwise).
b. The amount of rotation necessary before making "same-different" judgments
influences decision speed.
c. There were no consistent relationships between the variables examined in this study.
d. The propositional-storage interpretation of imagery is correct. - CORRECT ANSWER
Answer: b
Suppose that you are taking a course in geometry. You are trying to determine whether
two geometric shapes are identical, so you mentally rotate one of the figures in a
clockwise fashion. You are likely to find that
a. you will not be very accurate in this task, because mental imagery is very poor for
geometric figures.
b. you will take more time than if you had to rotate the figure in a 3-dimensional plane
(e.g., away from you).
c. you will rotate the figure more quickly than if you had to rotate it in a
counterclockwise fashion.
d. you will take longer to rotate it 120° than 40°. - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: d
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Which of the following people would be expected to be especially skilled at 180° mental
rotations?
a. Left-handers
b. Typesetters
c. Elderly people
d. Deaf people who are fluent in American Sign Language - CORRECT ANSWER
Answer: d
Cognitive neuroscience research on mental rotation suggests that the motor cortex is
active when people mentally rotate objects
a. after first having physically rotated objects with their hands.
b. after standard instructions to rotate the figure in their mind.
c. after watching a motor rotate objects.
d. in three dimensions, but not in two dimensions. - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: a
An analog code means that
a. a representation is very similar to the physical object.
b. we store information in terms of abstract descriptions.
c. we construct a representation from a verbal description.
d. the image is permanently stored in working memory. - CORRECT ANSWER
Answer: a
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