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abern

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Your textbook discusses the research on explanations for mental imagery. According to this discussion,
 
  a. visual imagery and visual perception activate similar regions of the cortex.
  b. most of the research on mental imagery can be attributed to experimenter expectancy and demand characteristics.
  c. neurological evidence tends to support a propositional explanation of the results.
  d. when we perceive real objects, we manipulate them in a way that is impossible in mental imagery

Question 2

How are the terms demand characteristics and experimenter expectancy related to each other?
 
  a. When experimenters clearly prefer participants who have certain cognitive characteristics, the experimenters expect them to perform especially well.
  b. If the participants are especially demanding or difficult, the experimenter tends to have lower expectations about their performance.
  c. It is unethical for an experimenter to have certain expectations, just as it is unethical for participants to make demand characteristics.
  d. The experimenter's expectancy about a study's results may be one kind of demand characteristic.



Mollythedog

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: a

Answer to Question 2

Ans: d



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