Essentials of Understanding Psychology
Essentials of Understanding Psychology
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781259531804
Author: Robert S Feldman Dean College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 21, Problem 1E
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Introduction: Thinking can be defined as a brain activity that enables people to mentally manipulate information such as visual images, sounds, words, and/or data. Thinking helps to transform information and allows one to answer questions, solve problems, and make decisions.

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Correct answer: Mental images are representations in the mind of an object or event.

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Mental images can be defined as the representations of an object or event formed in a person’s mind. Along with the visual representations, the ability to hear a tune also relies on the mental image. Mental images have many properties that depend on the actual stimuli they represent. Similar to the eye that scans larger and smaller objects, mind takes a longer time to scan mental images of larger images than the small ones.

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