The results of experiments in which participants viewed ambiguous figures with verbal labels, then drew the figures from memory, showed that
A) people are particularly sensitive to suggestion in the process of encoding.
B) people are not particularly sensitive to information presented during encoding.
C) visual images are recalled separately from the verbal labels applied to them.
D) verbal labels have no effect on how we encode and retrieve visual images.

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The results of the experiment suggest that people are particularly sensitive to suggestion during the process of encoding. Verbal labels can influence how people perceive and remember visual images.

The Results of Experiments in Which Participants Viewed Ambiguous Figures