Author Question: Suppose we asked people to form simultaneous images of two or more animals such as a rabbit ... (Read 73 times)

Alygatorr01285 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Suppose we asked people to form simultaneous images of two or more animals such as a rabbit alongside an elephant. Then, we ask them basic questions about the animals. For example, we might ask if the rabbit has whiskers. Given our knowledge of imagery research, we would expect the fastest response to this question when the rabbit is imagined alongside

a. a wolf.
b. an anteater.
c. a rhinoceros.
d. a bumblebee.

Question 2

In their imagery study, Finke and Pinker presented a four-dot display briefly to participants. After a two-second delay, participants then saw an arrow, and their task was to indicate whether the arrow would have pointed to any of the dots in the previous display. The significance of their results was they called into question the explanation of imagery.

a. epiphenomenon
b. depictive representation
c. spatial representation
d. tacit-knowledge