Exam 4: Mental Imagery

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With regard to navigation,cognitive psychologists differentiate between representing space as we see it (_____ representation)and representing space free of any particular viewpoint (_____ representation).

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Stevens and Coupe's (1978)research on map distortions showed that people are likely to make mistakes in determining which of two locations is farther east,west,north,or south if:

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Hart and Moore (1973)have supplied evidence that,as children develop cognitive maps,they first form _____ maps that are direct point-to-point depictions of the environment and later start to form _____ maps that are more complex schematics of the entire locale.

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In the Shepard and Metzler's task,subjects are asked to:

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Research on mental rotation and scanning seems to suggest that:

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In their study of a person with bilateral parietal-occipital damage,Levine,Warach,and Farah provided evidence that:

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When subjects were asked to judge which of two animals was larger,Moyer (1973)found that subjects were influenced by:

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Little Tommy Jones tries to give Mr.Smith directions to the grocery store over the phone.Mr.Smith is not able to understand the directions because Tommy explained how to get to the store from his house instead of from Mr.Smith"s house.This is an example of:

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Brooks (1968)asked subjects to point,tap,or verbalize responses to diagrams or sentences.What statement BEST explains the outcome?

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When subjects try to discriminate between two objects on the basis of size,the time it takes for them to do so increases as the difference in size between the two objects increases.

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Mental rotation research suggests that:

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In an experiment,subjects were asked to remember a map and then judge which of two cities was farther north or which of two cities was farther east.Which detail would probably affect the time it takes the subjects to make these judgments?

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Visual images share many properties with actual products of visual perception.

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Which question would subjects take the LONGEST time to answer?

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Roland and Friberg used a(n)_____ measurement technique to map brain activity with visual and verbal stimuli.

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Neuropsychological studies using visual and spatial tasks suggest that:

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What evidence supports the notion that,in mental rotation tasks,subjects rotate one object until it is congruent with the other?

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What do studies of visual comparison of magnitudes imply about the similarity between visual perception and visual imagery? Make sure to explain the work of Johnson (1939)and Moyer (1973).

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Spatial features are NOT a component of mental images.

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Research on mental imagery suggests that there is/are:

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