Cog Psych Chapter 10 Exam Questions
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1. Mental imagery involves - Answer ✔✔- experiencing a sensory impression in the
absence of sensory input.
2. One of Sarah's friends asks her to describe her new house by asking her how many
windows are on the front of it. After a minute, Sarah answers 12. She has most likely
used _____ in answering the question. - Answer ✔✔- visual imagery
3. 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 _____ in
playing the game. - Answer ✔✔- inner audition
4. Examples like Paul McCartney's composition of the song "Yesterday" and Jack
Nicklaus's improvement of his golf swing demonstrate a connection between imagery
and - Answer ✔✔- dreams.
5. Behaviorists branded the study of imagery as being unproductive because - Answer
✔✔- visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them.
6. "Early" researchers of imagery (beginning with Aristotle until just prior to the
dominance of behaviorism) proposed all of the following ideas EXCEPT - Answer ✔✔-
imagery requires a special mechanism.
7. Which statement below is most closely associated with the early history of the study
of imagery? - Answer ✔✔- Thought is always accompanied by imagery.
8. Paivio proposed the conceptual peg hypothesis. His work suggests which of the
following would be most difficult to remember? - Answer ✔✔- Freedom
9. Peggy is participating in a paired-associate learning experiment. During the study
period, she is presented with pairs of words such as boat-hat and car-house. While
taking the test, she would be presented with - Answer ✔✔- car
10. The conceptual peg hypothesis would predict enhanced memory for which word
pair? - Answer ✔✔- Valley girl
, 11. 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 - Answer
✔✔- mental chronometry.
12. Dominic is at a job interview sitting across from the company's CEO, Ms. Bing.
While she takes a phone call, Dominic tries to recall her first name. Her business card is
on the desk, but its orientation is not facing Dominic straight on. The business card has
the initial of Ms. Bing's first name, so Dominic mentally rotates that initial letter into a
straight-up orientation. For which angle (compared to the final straight-up orientation)
would you predict Dominic would be fastest in identifying the initial? - Answer ✔✔- 30
degrees
13. Shepard and Metzler's "image rotation" experiment was so influential and important
to the study of cognition because it demonstrated - Answer ✔✔- imagery and perception
may share the same mechanisms.
14. Ben has had problems with the pipes in his apartment. First, he had a clog in his
bathroom sink, and then two months later, his garbage disposal in the kitchen sink
clogged. Ben's superintendant told him he was not adequately flushing the debris from
his pipes. She suggested that he run the water a little longer and visualize the debris
(be it carrot peelings or toothpaste) traveling through the pipes all the way out to the
sewer connection in the street. Using this technique, Ben has had no more clogs. The
superintendant's suggestion involved - Answer ✔✔- mental scanning.
15. The scanning task used by Kosslyn involves - Answer ✔✔- mental images.
16. Mental-scanning experiments found - Answer ✔✔- a positive linear relationship
between scanning time and distance on the image.
17. Luis is taking his girlfriend, Rosa, to a resort town neither one of them has visited.
Luis wants to make a good impression on Rosa, so he spends the week before the trip
reading about fun places to go while they are there. He also memorizes a map of the
small resort town so he can lead her around without bothering to ask for directions.
When they arrive, they first visit a botanical garden. When Rosa says, "Where to next?"
Luis conjures a mental image of the map and says, "art museum." Let's assume the
garden was six inches due south on the map and that it took Luis four seconds to scan
the map image between the two. After they visit the museum, Luis takes Rosa to a
fancy restaurant. On the map, the restaurant was three inches northwest of the
museum, so it is most likely that when Luis scanned the image to find the restaurant,
the scan took approximately _____ seconds. - Answer ✔✔- 2
18. The "imagery debate" is concerned with whether imagery
A. actually exists.
B. can be used to solve spatial problems.
With All Correct Detailed Answers Rated
A+
1. Mental imagery involves - Answer ✔✔- experiencing a sensory impression in the
absence of sensory input.
2. One of Sarah's friends asks her to describe her new house by asking her how many
windows are on the front of it. After a minute, Sarah answers 12. She has most likely
used _____ in answering the question. - Answer ✔✔- visual imagery
3. 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 _____ in
playing the game. - Answer ✔✔- inner audition
4. Examples like Paul McCartney's composition of the song "Yesterday" and Jack
Nicklaus's improvement of his golf swing demonstrate a connection between imagery
and - Answer ✔✔- dreams.
5. Behaviorists branded the study of imagery as being unproductive because - Answer
✔✔- visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them.
6. "Early" researchers of imagery (beginning with Aristotle until just prior to the
dominance of behaviorism) proposed all of the following ideas EXCEPT - Answer ✔✔-
imagery requires a special mechanism.
7. Which statement below is most closely associated with the early history of the study
of imagery? - Answer ✔✔- Thought is always accompanied by imagery.
8. Paivio proposed the conceptual peg hypothesis. His work suggests which of the
following would be most difficult to remember? - Answer ✔✔- Freedom
9. Peggy is participating in a paired-associate learning experiment. During the study
period, she is presented with pairs of words such as boat-hat and car-house. While
taking the test, she would be presented with - Answer ✔✔- car
10. The conceptual peg hypothesis would predict enhanced memory for which word
pair? - Answer ✔✔- Valley girl
, 11. 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 - Answer
✔✔- mental chronometry.
12. Dominic is at a job interview sitting across from the company's CEO, Ms. Bing.
While she takes a phone call, Dominic tries to recall her first name. Her business card is
on the desk, but its orientation is not facing Dominic straight on. The business card has
the initial of Ms. Bing's first name, so Dominic mentally rotates that initial letter into a
straight-up orientation. For which angle (compared to the final straight-up orientation)
would you predict Dominic would be fastest in identifying the initial? - Answer ✔✔- 30
degrees
13. Shepard and Metzler's "image rotation" experiment was so influential and important
to the study of cognition because it demonstrated - Answer ✔✔- imagery and perception
may share the same mechanisms.
14. Ben has had problems with the pipes in his apartment. First, he had a clog in his
bathroom sink, and then two months later, his garbage disposal in the kitchen sink
clogged. Ben's superintendant told him he was not adequately flushing the debris from
his pipes. She suggested that he run the water a little longer and visualize the debris
(be it carrot peelings or toothpaste) traveling through the pipes all the way out to the
sewer connection in the street. Using this technique, Ben has had no more clogs. The
superintendant's suggestion involved - Answer ✔✔- mental scanning.
15. The scanning task used by Kosslyn involves - Answer ✔✔- mental images.
16. Mental-scanning experiments found - Answer ✔✔- a positive linear relationship
between scanning time and distance on the image.
17. Luis is taking his girlfriend, Rosa, to a resort town neither one of them has visited.
Luis wants to make a good impression on Rosa, so he spends the week before the trip
reading about fun places to go while they are there. He also memorizes a map of the
small resort town so he can lead her around without bothering to ask for directions.
When they arrive, they first visit a botanical garden. When Rosa says, "Where to next?"
Luis conjures a mental image of the map and says, "art museum." Let's assume the
garden was six inches due south on the map and that it took Luis four seconds to scan
the map image between the two. After they visit the museum, Luis takes Rosa to a
fancy restaurant. On the map, the restaurant was three inches northwest of the
museum, so it is most likely that when Luis scanned the image to find the restaurant,
the scan took approximately _____ seconds. - Answer ✔✔- 2
18. The "imagery debate" is concerned with whether imagery
A. actually exists.
B. can be used to solve spatial problems.
