John mentally represents a boat sailing under a bridge.He then represents what he has heard a person shouting from a car downtown.According to the Anderson and Bower's hypothesis,__________ is/are encoded as (a)proposition(s).
A)the first representation only
B)the second representation only
C)neither representation
D)both of the representations

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Anderson and Bower's hypothesis suggests that both mental representations, i.e. the boat sailing under a bridge and the person shouting from a car downtown, are encoded as propositions, which are meaningful units of thought that can be true or false. Therefore, both representations are likely to be encoded as propositions.

John Mentally Represents a Boat Sailing Under a Bridge