Exam 10: Visual Imagery

Kosslyn concluded that the image field is limited in size.This conclusion was drawn from theexperiment.

Carly is an interior design student.As part of her internship,she is redesigning a small kitchen for a client.She would like to expand the kitchen and add a dining area.Before creating sketches for the client,she imagines the new layout in her mind,most likely using

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?

Discuss mental rotation experimental results and mental-scanning experimental results that support the idea that the spatial experience for both imagery and perception match the layout of the actual stimulus.

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

Much has been learned about imagery using physiological techniques.Explain how each of these techniques (brain imaging,removal of part of the brain,and single-neuron recordings)has demonstrated parallels between imagery and perception.

Describe in detail two techniques that use imagery to improve memory.Explain the underlying principles that define why imagery works successfully as a memory enhancer.

Your text describes imagery performance of a patient with unilateral neglect.This patient was asked to imagine himself standing at one end of a familiar plaza and to report the objects he saw.His behavior shows

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 approximatelyseconds.

Behaviorists branded the study of imagery as being unproductive because

Shepard and Meltzer 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

Paivio (1963)proposed the conceptual peg hypothesis.His work suggests which of the following would be most difficult to remember?

As described in your text,the pegword technique relies on all of the following EXCEPT

To explain the fact that some neuropsychological studies show close parallels between perceptual deficits and deficits in imagery,while other studies do not find this parallel,it has been proposed that the mechanism for imagery is located atvisual centers and the mechanism for perception is located atvisual centers.

Ganis and coworkers used fMRI to measure brain activation for perception and imagery of objects.Their results showed that

A circular plate rests at the center of a small square table.Around the table are a total of four chairs,one along each side of the square table.A person with unilateral neglect sits down in one of the chairs and eats from the plate.After he is "finished," he moves to the next chair on his right and continues to eat from the plate.Assuming he never moves the plate and he continues with this procedure (moving one chair to the right and eating)how many chairs will he have to sit in to eat all the food on the plate?

Which statement below is most closely associated with the early history of the study of imagery?

Describe the evidence showing that food cravings can be caused by visual imagery,as well as the evidence that nonfood imagery can decrease such cravings.

Kosslyn interpreted the results of his research on imagery (such as the island experiment)as supporting the idea that the mechanism responsible for imagery involvesrepresentations.

The "imagery debate" is concerned with whether imagery