Margaret Intons-Peterson manipulated experimenter expectancies by suggesting to one group of experimenters that task performance would be expected to be better for perceptual tasks than for imaginal ones. She suggested the opposite outcome to a second group of experimenters. When experimenters expected imaginal performance to be better than perceptual performance, participants responded accordingly, and vice versa. Thus, experimental participants performing visualization tasks may be responding in part to the ____ of the task.
a. perceptual difficulty
b. matching variables
c. demand characteristics
d. cognitive complexity
Question 2
Jane is asked to imagine standing on the north end of the town square and then describe what she sees. In her description, Jane reports all of the buildings on the east side of the square, but none from the west side of the square. Based on this report, one might conclude that Jane is experiencing ____.
a. object blindness
b. iconic dysfunction
c. representational neglect
d. hemispatial syndrome
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