COG PSYCH FINAL PRACTICE PROBLEMS VISUAL IMAGERY

UIOWA

In a mental rotation task, you’d fastest to match a target object to its rotated
counterpart if the target and its counterpart were ______.
a. 180 degrees apart
b. not identical
c. only 10 degrees apart
d. mirror images of each other

C only 10 degrees apart

In studying mental rotation of objects, Shepard and Metzler (1971) found that the ______ an object is rotated in space (from zero degrees), participants confirmed the object's identity ______.
a. less; faster
b. less; slower
c. more; faster
d. more; as fast as when it was rotated less

A less; faster

Your occipital lobe would be activated when you ______.
a. perform a mental arithmetic task
b. perform a mental rotation task
c. imagine the smell of cinnamon
d. imagine the taste of chocolate

B perform a mental rotation task

Primary visual cortex is best described as representing space using:
a) A visual (retinotopic) representation
b) A propositional representation
c) Implicit representation
d) Neither an analog nor a propositional representation

A A visual (retinotopic) representation