Quiz on Mental Imagery

What is mental imagery?

• Hearing sounds without any auditory input

• Feeling a physical touch without any tactile input

• Experiencing a sensory impression without sensory input

• Tasting food without actually eating it

When did imagery research begin again after stopping during the behaviorist era?

• 1950s

• 1960s

• 1980s

• 1970s

Who challenged Kosslyn's mental scanning experiments regarding imagery?

• Galton

• Pylyshyn

• Farah

• Perky

Which experiment demonstrated the interaction between perception and imagery?

• Visual walk task

• Physiological experiments

• Perky's 1910 experiment

• Farah's H or T experiment

How have parallels between perception and imagery been demonstrated physiologically?

• Recording from single neurons

• Brain imaging

• Multivoxel pattern analysis

• All of the above

What is the conclusion drawn by most psychologists regarding the relationship between imagery and perception?

• They are completely unrelated

• They are closely related and share some mechanisms

• They share all mechanisms

• They are opposites

How can the use of imagery improve memory?

• Visualizing interacting images

• All of the above

• Using the method of loci

• Associating items with nouns using the pegword technique

What did Kozhevnikov find regarding students with high spatial imagery?

• They perform better on mathematics problems

• They perform better on biology problems

• They perform better on physics problems

• They perform better on chemistry problems

What is the term used for people who prefer using verbal-logical reasoning to solve problems?

• Object imagers

• Imagers

• Non-imagers

• Spatial imagers

What evidence suggests differences between imagery and perception?

• None of the above

• Brain damage causing dissociations

• Differences in areas of the brain activated

• Both A and B