Question 1

Examples like Paul McCartney's composition of the song "Yesterday" and Jack Nicklaus's improvement of his golf swing demonstrate a connection between imagery and

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A)  dual coding.
B)  dreams.
C)  inner audition.
D)  the visual buffer.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 2

Amedi and coworkers used fMRI to investigate the differences between brain activation for perception and imagery.Their findings showed that when participants were,some areas associated with non-visual sensation (such as hearing and touch) were.

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A)  using visual images;activated
B)  using visual images;deactivated
C)  perceiving stimuli;activated
D)  perceiving stimuli;deactivatedE) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 3

In drawing conclusions about the relationship between imagery and perception,a notable difference between them is that

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A)  perception and imagery processes do not share the same brain mechanisms.
B)  it is harder to manipulate mental images than perceptual images.
C)  imagery is more stable than perception.
D)  imagery occurs more automatically than perception.E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 4

Which of the following has been used as an argument AGAINST the idea that imagery is spatial in nature?

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A)  The results of scanning experiments
B)  Depictive representations
C)  The tacit-knowledge explanation
D)  The distinction between propositional and spatial representationsE) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 5

Suppose that,as a participant in an imagery study,you are asked to memorize the four outside walls of a three-story rectangular house.Later,you are asked to report how many windows are on the front of the house.You will probably be fastest to answer this question if you create an image as though you were standing

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A)  right at the front door.
B)  two feet from the front door.
C)  at the far side of the front yard,away from the house.
D)  one mile away from the house.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 6

Suppose we asked people to form simultaneous images of two or more animals such as a rabbit alongside an elephant.Then,we ask them basic questions about the animals.For example,we might ask if the rabbit has whiskers.Given our knowledge of imagery research,we would expect the fastest response to this question when the rabbit is imagined alongside

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A)  a wolf.
B)  an anteater.
C)  a rhinoceros.
D)  a bumblebee.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 7

Imagery neurons respond to

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A)  all visual images.
B)  only visual images in a specific category.
C)  an actual visual image as well as imagining that same image.
D)  concrete mental images but not abstract mental images.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 8

Mental imagery involves

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A)  experiencing a sensory impression in the absence of sensory input.
B)  mental representations of the current sensory inputs.
C)  sensory representations of a stimulus.
D)  the misrepresentation of a stimulus as possessing physical attributes that are,in fact,absent.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 9

"Early" researchers of imagery (beginning with Aristotle until just prior to the dominance of behaviorism) proposed all of the following ideas EXCEPT

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A)  studying images was a way of studying thinking.
B)  images are one of the three basic elements of consciousness.
C)  imagery requires a special mechanism.
D)  thought is impossible without an image.E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 10

One of Sarah's friends asks her to describe her new house by asking her how many windows are on the front of it.After a minute,Sarah answers 12.She has most likely usedin answering the question.

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A)  the visual search
B)  her visual icon
C)  visual imagery
D)  mental chronometryE) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 11

In explaining the paradox that imagery and perception exhibit a double dissociation,Behrmann and coworkers suggested that perception necessarily involvesprocessing and imagery starts as aprocess.

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A)  bottom-up;bottom-up
B)  top-down;top-down
C)  bottom-up;top-down
D)  top-down;bottom-upE) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 12

In their imagery study,Finke and Pinker presented a four-dot display briefly to participants.After a two-second delay,participants then saw an arrow,and their task was to indicate whether the arrow would have pointed to any of the dots in the previous display.The significance of their results was they called into question the explanation of imagery.

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A)  epiphenomenon
B)  depictive representation
C)  spatial representation
D)  tacit-knowledgeE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 13

Kosslyn's transcranial magnetic stimulation experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex

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A)  is an epiphenomenon.
B)  can be inferred using mental chronometry.
C)  supports the idea that the mechanism responsible for imagery involves propositional representations.
D)  plays a causal role in both perception and imagery.E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 14

Shepard and Meltzer's "image rotation" experiment was so influential and important to the study of cognition because it demonstrated

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A)  how easy mental rotation is for humans.
B)  that humans cannot successfully rotate mental images beyond 90 degrees.
C)  that humans can only perform mental rotation on "real-world" objects.
D)  imagery and perception may share the same mechanisms.E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

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In drawing conclusions about the relationship between imagery and perception,a notable difference between them is that

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One of Sarah's friends asks her to describe her new house by asking her how many windows are on the front of it.After a minute,Sarah answers 12.She has most likely usedin answering the question.

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Imagery neurons respond to

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Shepard and Meltzer's "image rotation" experiment was so influential and important to the study of cognition because it demonstrated

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Which of the following has been used as an argument AGAINST the idea that imagery is spatial in nature?

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Amedi and coworkers used fMRI to investigate the differences between brain activation for perception and imagery.Their findings showed that when participants were,some areas associated with non-visual sensation (such as hearing and touch) were.

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Examples like Paul McCartney's composition of the song "Yesterday" and Jack Nicklaus's improvement of his golf swing demonstrate a connection between imagery and

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Mental imagery involves

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In explaining the paradox that imagery and perception exhibit a double dissociation,Behrmann and coworkers suggested that perception necessarily involvesprocessing and imagery starts as aprocess.

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Kosslyn's transcranial magnetic stimulation experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex

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"Early" researchers of imagery (beginning with Aristotle until just prior to the dominance of behaviorism) proposed all of the following ideas EXCEPT

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One of Sarah's friends asks her to describe her new house by asking her how many windows are on the front of it.After a minute,Sarah answers 12.She has most likely usedin answering the question.

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Shepard and Meltzer's "image rotation" experiment was so influential and important to the study of cognition because it demonstrated

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Which of the following has been used as an argument AGAINST the idea that imagery is spatial in nature?

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Amedi and coworkers used fMRI to investigate the differences between brain activation for perception and imagery.Their findings showed that when participants were,some areas associated with non-visual sensation (such as hearing and touch) were.

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