FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCHCHAPTER6 EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCHCHAPTER6 EXAM

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-Guarantee passing score -153 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Having been laughed at repeatedly for not seeing what others see, a student rapidly learns to adjust their perceptual set to be consistent with that of others. This

modification of perceptual set would be most interesting to:

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behaviorists.Question 2: The principle of connectedness would most likely lead you to perceive all the ________ as parts of a single unit.

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rungs in a ladder.Question 3: The Gestalt principles of proximity and similarity refer to ways in which we:

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organize stimuli into coherent groups.Question 4: Most people use the same cues to see groups of figures. This suggests that:

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Natural selection has influenced our perception of organization.

Question 5: Objects that are high in the visual field

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Tend to be farther away than objects that are lower in the field.

Question 6: ___may be caused by the same gene that causes_____

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dyslexia, albinism Question 7: The extrasensory ability to perceive an automobile accident taking place in a distant location is to ________ as the extrasensory ability to know at any moment exactly what your best friend is thinking is to ________.

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clairvoyance; telepathy Question 8: Which of the following might be an operational definition of perceptual set?

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Expectations that color what we perceive.Question 9: You are reading this question carefully, entirely focused on it because you want to do well on the test. You may be experiencing _____ as the result of _____ motivation (your grade on the test).

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Visual capture, extrinsic.Question 10: It wasn't until Clara heard some of her classmates laughing loudly during history class that she began to perceive the professor's ongoing lecture to be very funny. This provides

an illustration of:

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context effects.Question 11: people are shown different optical illusions in one of two orders. They are asked to describe what they see. Their responses reflect what they are looking at, and what they have already seen. What is the dependent variable in this study?

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Their descriptions of the illusions that they are looking at.

Question 12: In the Müller-Lyer illusion, the line enclosed in an outward-pointing arrowhead is perceived as ______ than the line enclosed in an inward-pointing arrowhead.

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longer.Question 13: One explanation of ESP is selective:

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Recall.Question 14: Someone you want to get to know better smiles at you when you focus your attention on him and ignore everything else that is going on around you. In this situation:

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A conditioned reinforcer may produce inattentional blindness.Question 15: The evolutionary perspective might be used to explain:

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Responses to the visual cliff.

Question 16: Memory can be regarded as a ____ of the past.

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perception.

Question 17: The further something is from you

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The more parallel the eyes are.Question 18: Of two identical horizontal bars in the Ponzo illusion, the bar that is:

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higher in the visual field appears to be longer because it appears to be farther away.Question 19: John Locke would have suggested that a perceptual set results from:

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prior experience.

Question 20: The inability to separate individual trees on the far hill shows the effect of

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Perspective.Question 21: Gender role, gender typing and gender identity are often the result of:

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Selective attention.Question 22: In the context of visual perception, convergence refers to the:

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extent to which the eyes turn inward when looking at an object.Question 23: In order to give greater depth to his painting, Shakir enveloped the background

landscape in a misty haze. Shakir was making use of the distance cue known as:

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relative clarity.Question 24: Perceptual grouping may facilitate short-term memory through its effect on:

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Recognition.Question 25: The apparent narrowing of a river as it flows directly away from you into the

distance best illustrates the depth cue known as:

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linear perspective.

Question 26: In general,

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The farther an object is, the less space it takes up on the retina.Question 27: Delta waves are linked to synchronicity in the activity of neurons in the:

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Cerebral cortex.