Exam Revision Quiz 1 Flashcards
Kosslyn’s transcranial magnetic stimulation experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex
Select one:
a. supports the idea that the mechanism responsible for imagery involves propositional representations
b. can be inferred using mental chronometry
c. is an epiphenomenon
d. plays a causal role in both perception and imagery
d. plays a causal role in both perception and imagery
Georgia has no idea what she just read in her text because she was thinking about how hungry she is and what she is going to eat for dinner. Georgia’s experience is a real-world example of
Select one:
a. the late-selection model of attention
b. inattentional blindness
c. the cocktail party phenomenon
d. an object-based attentional failure
b. inattentional blindness
In Simons and Chabris’s “change blindness” experiment, participants watch a film of people playing basketball. Many participants failed to report that a woman carrying an umbrella walked through because the
Select one:
a. participants were not asked if they saw anything unusual
b. woman with the umbrella was in motion, just like the players
c. the umbrella was the same color as the floor
d. participants were counting the number of ball passes
d. participants were counting the number of ball passes
Scene schema is
Select one:
a. short pauses of the eyes on points of interest in a scene
b. how attention is distributed throughout a static scene
c. knowledge about what is contained in a typical scene
d. rapid movements of the eyes from one place to another in a scene
c. knowledge about what is contained in a typical scene
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.
Select one:
a. bottom-up; top-down
b. top-down; bottom-up
c. top-down; top-down
d. bottom-up; bottom-up
a. bottom-up; top-down
A mental image could be useful for which of the following tasks?
Select one:
a. Mental rotation could be useful for all of the tasks listed
b. Describing what your childhood home looked like
c. Trying to figure out a way to fit you hair dryer in your suitcase
d. Coming up with directions to your apartment
a. Mental rotation could be useful for all of the tasks listed
What is the most important factor in determining if a person sees an object change in a scene?
Select one:
a. Remembering the details of the scene
b. Attending to the object that is changing
c. Whether or not the person likes the scene
d. None of the other answers are the most important factor
b. Attending to the object that is changing
Imagery neurons respond to
Select one:
a. an actual visual image as well as imagining that same image
b. only visual images in a specific category
c. concrete mental images but not abstract mental images
d. all visual images
a. an actual visual image as well as imagining that same image
While doing a experiment like the one in the CogLab Mental Rotation demonstration participants will often report …
Select one:
a. that they observe the two objects and eventually have a spontaneous insight into whether or not the two objects are the same
b. that they are never really able to tell if the objects are the same or not and they make their same/different judgment on instinct
c. that they mentally rotate one of the objects until they can determine if the two objects are the same or not
d. None of the options are correct
c. that they mentally rotate one of the objects until they can determine if the two objects are the same or not
Behaviorists branded the study of imagery as being unproductive because
Select one:
a. visual images vary in detail
b. visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them
c. some people have great difficulty forming visual images
d. the imageless thought debate was unresolved
b. visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them
Anika 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., Tomato sauce splattered on the front door). By doing so, Anika is using
Select one:
a. mental synthesis
b. paired-associate learning
c. the pegword technique
d. method of loci
d. method of loci
In the flicker condition of the change detection demonstration what type of search strategy is typically used?
Select one:
a. a serial search
b. a two by two search
c. a circular search
d. a parallel search
a. a serial search
The “imagery debate” is concerned with whether imagery
Select one:
a. is identical for all people
b. actually exists.
c. is based on spatial or language mechanisms
d. can be used to inform non-visual sensory systems
c. is based on spatial or language mechanisms
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 .
Select one:
a. using visual images; deactivated
b. using visual images; activated
c. perceiving stimuli; deactivated
d. perceiving stimuli; activated
a. using visual images; deactivated
Paivio’s (1963) conceptual peg hypothesis would predict that which of the following would be most difficult to remember?
Select one:
a. New Zealand
b. Pavlova
c. Rugby
d. Freedom
d. Freedom
