What term denotes the image of an object formed in the mind from sense perception?

• A. Abstraction
• B. Mental image
• C. Term
• D. Comprehension

Answer: (B)

This tests the idea of the immediate representation formed in the mind from sensory experience. When you perceive something, your mind creates a vivid mental picture of it—an image that the senses have presented. This is called a mental image (often tied to the older term phantasm). It’s the direct sensory representation, not an abstract concept or a linguistic label.

Abstraction is the process of stripping away details from that image to form a general concept. A term is the word or sign used to name that concept, not the image itself. Comprehension refers to the internal content or attributes associated with a term. Because the question points to the image produced by sense perception, the correct notion is the mental image.