Exam 9: Visual Imagery and Spatial Cognition

Which is NOT one of Finke's principles of visual imagery?

Looking at a real picture of a dog,and creating a visual image of a dog,activate the same parts of the brain.

In a mental rotation task,you'd fastest to match a target object to its rotated counterpart if the target and its counterpart were ______.

Images can prime the visual pathway,making it easier to detect a faint stimulus.This is an example of ______ equivalence.

The dual-coding hypothesis states that recall will be best when items are coded ______.

Nickerson and Adams showed that when it comes to memory for commonly seen objects like pennies,______.

Mental rotations are more accurate when done in two dimensions than when done in three dimensions.

Summarize what neuropsychological research has to say about the nature of visual imagery.

Paivio's ______ hypothesis argues that long-term memory contains two separate systems that represent information in verbal and visual forms,respectively.

Both blind and sighted participants take longer to "scan" the visual image of a map when the actual distance between two landmarks is greater.This illustrates the idea of ______ equivalence.

Cooper's studies of the mental rotation of complex polygons indicated that people ______.

Name a factor that does,and one that does not,affect the speed of mental rotation.

In Brook's (1968)task involving a capital letter F,participants are able to correctly identify the orientation of particular corners even if they do not consciously remember how they were marked.This is an example of ______.

Because of experimenter expectancy effects,Intons-peterson (1983)found that experimenters who had been told imaginal primes would be ______ effective than perceptual primes found that imaginal primes were ______ effective than perceptual primes and vice versa.

A propositional representation is thought to be ______ in nature.

Which of the following methods would most help you to remember the word pair "elephant-cigar"?

Because similar visual systems are active for both mental imagery and visual perception,Finke argues that mental images have ______.

Knowledge of where your feet are located right now is part of your cognition of the space ______.

When comparing people's speed at reasoning with abstract concepts (smarter- dumber),spatial concepts (above-below),and visual relationships (cleaner-dirtier),Knauff and Johnson found that ______ relationships had the slowest performance.

The observation that we appear to construct our mental images out of similar kinds of parts as their real world-counterparts would be described by Finke as ______.