Kosslyn (1975) Asked People to Make Visual Images Such as a Rabbit

question 45

Multiple Choice

Kosslyn (1975) asked people to make visual images such as a rabbit next to an elephant.He showed that:

• A)people could not make the side-by-side comparisons.
• B)visual imagery alone was insufficient for the task.
• C)participants were slower when an auditory distraction was also present.
• D)speeded judgments of the characteristics of images were affected by the size of the imagined object.

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Encoded Information

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