Exam 11: Visual Knowledge

The text argues that image files in long-term memory:

A psychologist asks her experimental participants to describe their experiences in using mental imagery. The psychologist is collecting:

Chronometric studies:

In some cases, participants (often unknowingly) change their response to what they think that the experimenter is looking for. Here participants are said to be sensitive to the _____ of the experiment.

In a memory experiment, participants were shown a form that could be interpreted in more than one way. Half the participants were told, "Here is a picture of the sun." Other participants were told, "Here is a picture of a ship's steering wheel." Some time later, participants were asked to draw the exact form they had seen earlier. The data indicate that:

Evidence indicates that:

One group of participants is instructed to imagine a cat and the participants are then asked several yes/no questions about their image. A second group of participants is instructed simply to think about cats, with no mention of imagery, and the participants are then asked the same yes/no questions. We expect that participants responding on the basis of the image will respond more quickly to which of the following questions?

Participants' self-reports about their imagery vividness:

When asked to determine which city is farther south, Seattle or Montreal, people are likely to mistakenly say Seattle. This is probably because:

Studies of mental rotation indicate that:

Researchers have argued that visual images are created by:

When imagining an object, it is often difficult to reimagine that object as something else. For example, an ambiguous picture could be interpreted as a duck or a rabbit, but when imagining it, people will see only the duck or the rabbit, not both. Hints such as "Try thinking about the form from the right" can help people to see both aspects of the image. Why would this hint help?

Participants are asked to perform an imagery task while simultaneously keeping track of a visual target (a light that varies in brightness). The visual task will:

The concept of boundary extension illustrates that:

Studies of participants blind since birth indicate that:

Studies of individual differences in mental imagery ability indicate that:

Which of the following claims is true for a depiction of a cat but NOT for a description of a cat?

Damage to brain areas needed for vision:

In one study on picture memory, researchers showed participants pictures of typical scenes, such as a bedroom. In the typical scene were some unexpected objects (e.g., a washing machine). During the test, participants were shown the same scene, with a few changes. Results from this study indicate that:

Visual acuity is defined as the ability to: