Question

Behaviorists branded the study of imagery as being unproductive because .

a. the imageless thought debate was unresolved
b. visual images vary in detail
c. some people have great difficulty forming visual images
d. visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is option D "visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them"

Step-by-step explanation:

Imagery makes use of particular words that create visual representation of ideas in our minds. The word “imagery” is associated with mental pictures. However, for imagery to be realistic, turns out to be more complex than just a picture.

Imagery study is branded to be unproductive according to the Behaviorists base on the fact that the images produced at the cause of imagery are not visible to everyone but rather, they are only visible to the person who is experincing the imagery which is the correct answer.

Answer 2

visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them.

Step-by-step explanation:

Because of this, john Watson, an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism described images to be unproven and mythological and should then not be worthy of study.

Behaviorism, a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals which dominated for more than thirty years between 1920 to 1950, pushed the study of imagery out of psychology .