Lab Exercise with Quizzing

Read the materials, click on the lab exercise links and take the quizzes. Please note these will open in a new window.

Lab Exercise 1: Method of Loci Exercise

A resource intended to assist students with their mastery and appreciation for the field of cognitive psychology. Perform the exercise. How is this memory strategy useful? When could it be used for the greatest benefit?

Follow-Up Quiz

1. The method of loci relies on ______.

  1. our ability to repeat items over and over
  2. our association of information with locations
  3. our association between the meanings of list items
  4. none of these

Ans: B

2. The method of loci can be used to remember ______.

  1. a list of pictures
  2. a list of words
  3. all of these
  4. none of these

Ans: C

3. The method of loci is most effective when images are created for locations that are ______.

  1. in color
  2. bizarre or unusual
  3. ordinary or common
  4. none of these

Ans: B

 

Lab Exercise 2: Mental Rotation Experiment

This experiment will allow you to conduct variations of the mental rotations of Cooper (1975) and Metzler and Shepherd (1974).

Follow-Up Quiz

1. In this version of the experiment, you must decide if two stimuli are identical or one is a mirror image of the other one.

  1. True
  2. False

Ans: T

2. For this experiment you can look at both reaction time and ______.

  1. decay time
  2. image clarity
  3. accuracy
  4. fatigue

Ans: C

3. The experiment consist solely of mirror images and examines the accuracy of mirror neurons.

  1. True
  2. False

Ans: F

 

Lab Exercise 3: The Perky Effect

The Perky Effect describes the relationship between real visual information (perception) and mental imagery. Go through the steps of the study.

Follow-Up Quiz

1. Which conclusion can correctly be drawn regarding the results displayed in Figure 1 of the exercise?

  1. A clear Perky effect was shown, with an increasing effect when the masking lines were visualized closer in proximity to the fixation lines.
  2. It is not possible to infer whether the data show a Perky effect.
  3. No Perky effect is shown in the data.
  4. A slight Perky effect was shown, with a decreasing effect when the masking lines were visualized closer in proximity to the fixation lines.

Ans: A

2. Masking lines and fixation lines refer to the same thing.

  1. True
  2. False

Ans: T

3. In the experiment, fixation lines are shown as they appear in the bold, black condition, as solid lines in the figure.

  1. True
  2. False

Ans: F