Cognitive Psychology Chapter 10

Who's idea was it that "thought is impossible without an image"?

• Darwin

• Ulysses

• Aristotle

• Pufendorf

Visual imagery is seeing in the absence of a visual stimulus

• True

• False

Which experiment found a positive linear relationship between the angle of rotation of a shape and participants' reaction times?

• Image Scanning Experiment

• Mental Rotation Experiment

• Method of Loci

• The Keyword Method

Who created the method of Loci

• Simonides

• Warren

• Shepard & Metzler

• Kosslyn

How did Simonides identify the boys of the people killed by the roof collapsing

• By looking at everyone found in the rummage

• By photos

• By creating a visual image of where everyone was sitting during his speech at the banquet

• He didn't

Placing images at locations doesn't really improve memories

• True

• False

What did Kossyln's Mental Scanning Experiments show?

• That rotating two objects makes it harder to identify them as the same or not

• That you can view a mental layout of familiar places

• That humans aren't good at making mental images of physical spaces

• That there is spatial correspondence between imagery and perception

What did participants walk toward in Kosslyn's mental walk task?

• Another person

• Their mental image of an animal

• The wall

• Their mental image of a loved one

What's organized like a topographic map?

• The brain

• The human body

• The visual cortex

• The closet

Removing part of the visual cortex decreases image size

• True

• False