Chapter 6

Question 1

88) Spatial visualization

Answer 1

a type of spatial performance that involves complicated, multistep mental manipulations of special information such as “disembedding” a simple figure from a complex background.

Question 2

89) Spatial perception

Answer 2

a type of spatial performance that involves determining spatial relationships with respect to one’s own body orientation despite distracting information.

Question 3

90) Mental rotation

Answer 3

a type of spatial ability that involves being able to quickly visualize objects from different perspectives than the one shown

Question 4

91) Spatiotemporal ability

Answer 4

a type of spatial ability that involves making judgements about moving visual displays, such as predicting when a moving object will reach a particular spot.

Question 5

92) Cerebral cortex

Answer 5

the outermost part of the brain, divided into lobes that fulfill different sensory and motor functions.

Question 6

93) Corpus callosum

Answer 6

a mass of nerve fibres that connects the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex.

Question 7

94) Lateralization

Answer 7

the degree to which particular functions are localized in one side of the brain