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Download full textHanley, Gerard L. – 1987
The difference in cognitive resources required for imagination and perception was tested in two experiments by examining the reduced substitutability of imagination and perception in problem solving by college undergraduates. Eighty subjects in Experiment 1 drew capital letters from lines or descriptions of lines in a seven-page booklet. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, College Students
