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1.For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked , , and . For questions 8-10,completethe sentences with the information given in the passage.
How to Visualize Your Success
Have you ever heard of visualization ? Of course you have. Everybody s heard of visualization and everybodypartakes in it whether they realize it or not. How it works though is an altogether different matter. I want to take a closer look today at the mechanics of why visualizing works without necessarily delving into concepts and theories that cannot
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The brain has great difficulty in distinguishing between what s true and what s imagined. There is an off-cited example of an experiment conducted by Austrahan Psychologist, Alan Richardson. He took some basketball players andsplit them into 3 equal groups. One group was told to practice their free throw technique twenty minutes per day. The nextgroup was told to spend twenty minutes per day visualizing, but not attempting free throws, and the final group wasn tallowed to either practice or visualize. At the end of the test period the group that had done nothing remained as they were,but both the other groups showed similar degrees of improvement, The people who only visualized playing basketball were ableto perform almost as well as the ones who had actually practiced.
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