MODULE 10: IMAGERY IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY

1. A type of mental imagery in which you experience seeing an image in the absence
of a visual stimulus ANSWER: Visual imagery
2. A broader term that refers to experiencing a sensory impression in the absence of
sensory input or the ability to re-create the sensory world in the absence of physical
stimuli. ANSWER: Mental imagery
3. The debate whether thought is possible in the absence of images
ANSWER: Imageless thought debate
4. It is a hypothesis associated with Paivio's dual coding theory that states that
concrete nouns create images that other words can hang on to, which enhances
memory for these words ANSWER: Conceptual peg hypothesis
5. A learning task in which participants are 1st presented with pair of words, then
one word of each pair is presented and the task is to recall the other word
ANSWER: Paired-associate learning
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6. Determining the amount of time needed to carry out a cognitive task
ANSWER: Mental chronometry
7. A process of mental imagery in which a person scans a mental image in his or
her mind ANSWER: Mental scanning
8. A debate about whether imagery is based on spatial mechanisms, such as those
involved in perception Kama or mechanisms related to language, called propositional
mechanisms. ANSWER: Imagery debate
9. Representation in which different parts of an image can be described as
corresponding to specific locations in space ANSWER: Spatial representations

10. A phenomenon that accompanies a real mechanism but is not actually part
of the mechanism, an example is lights that flash on a mainframe computer as it
operates. ANSWER: Epiphenomenon
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11. Representations in which relationships can be represented by abstract symbols,
such as an equation, or a statement, such as "The cat is under-the-table"
ANSWER: Propositional representations

12. Parts of the representation correspond to parts of the object

ANSWER: Depictive representations

13. A task used in imagery experiments in which participants are asked to form a
mental image of an object and to imagine that they are walking toward this mental
image ANSWER: Mental walk task

14. Neurons in the human brain studied by Kreiman, which fire in the same way
when a person sees a picture of an object and when a person creates a visual image
of the object ANSWER: Imagery neuron

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15. Specific locations on a visual stimulus cause activity at specific locations in the
visual cortex, and points next to each other on the stimulus cause activity at
locations next to each other on the cortex. ANSWER: Topographic map

16. A procedure for determining the pattern of voxel activation that is elicited by
specific stimuli, within various structures. ANSWER: Multivoxel pattern analysis
(MVPA)
17. A condition in which the patient ignores objects in one half of the visual field
due to damage to the (right) parietal lobes `ANSWER: Unilateral neglect

18. The inability to visually recognize objects ANSWER: Visual agnosia

19. A method in which things to be remembered are placed at different locations in a

mental image of a spatial layout ANSWER: Method of Loci
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20. A method for remembering things that involves imagery, as in the method of
loci, but in which the things to be remembered are associated with concrete
words
ANSWER: Pegword technique

21. It refers to the ability to image spatial relations, such as layout of a garden
ANSWER: Spatial imagery
22. The ability to image visual details, features, or objects, such as rose bush
with bright red roses in the garden ANSWER: Object imagery

23. A test in which a piece of paper is folded and then pierced by a pencil to
create a hole. The task is to determine, from a number of alternatives, where the
holes will be on the unfolded piece of paper ANSWER: Paper folding test (PFT)
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24. A test in which people are asked to rate the vividness of mental images they
create. This test is designed to measure object ability.
ANSWER: Vividness of Visual imagery questionnaire (VVIQ)

25. A task in which a line drawing is degraded by omitting parts of the drawing and
obscuring it with a visual noise pattern. The person's task is to identify the object
ANSWER: Degraded pictures task

26. A task in which a person judges whether two pictures of three dimensional
geometric objects are pictures of the same object rotated in space or are pictures of
two mirror-image objects rotated in space ANSWER: Mental rotation task