Cognitive Processes in Mental Imagery Quiz

Explore cognitive neuroscience with questions on mental rotation, dual coding theory, brain regions, and more. Test your knowledge now!

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Which cognitive process involves mentally rotating an object in your mind?

Perception

Encoding

Rotation

Spatial imagery

Who proposed the dual coding theory, suggesting that information can be stored in both verbal and non-verbal forms?

Noam Chomsky

Alan Baddeley

Richard Atkinson

Allan Paivio

Which brain region is particularly associated with the generation of mental images?

Prefrontal cortex

Hippocampus

Visual cortex

Amygdala

Which type of mental imagery involves imagining the taste, smell, or texture of something without the actual sensory input?

Auditory imagery

Olfactory imagery

Gustatory imagery

Tactile imagery

Which psychologist is known for his work on cognitive maps and mental rotation tasks?

Ulric Neisser

George Miller

Roger Shepard

Edward Tolman

In the mental rotation task, reaction times increase as the degree of rotation increases. What is this phenomenon called?

Rotation effect

Mental chronometry

Shepard-Risset rhythm

Mental rotation cost

What is the term for the phenomenon where imagining an action activates the same neural pathways as actually performing that action?

Mental imagery effect

Mirror neuron system

Action simulation

Embodied cognition

In the context of mental imagery, what does the term 'eidetic' refer to?

Vivid and detailed mental images

Aphantasia

Blind sight

Hypnagogic imagery

What is the term for the inability to generate voluntary mental imagery?

Hypnagogia

Aphantasia

Dyschronometria

Eidetic memory

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According to the imageless thought controversy, who argued that thought could occur without mental images?

Sigmund Freud

John Watson

William James

B.F. Skinner