You have a craving for ice cream

In the lunch room, you see a large bowl of pistachio ice cream. Excitedly, you run up to the bowl, only to find that it smells like tuna and is, in fact, a large bowl of tuna fish. You have just experienced
a. sensory adaptation.
b. the Gestalt notion of similarity.
c. the failure of a perceptual hypothesis.
d. camouflage interfering with figure-ground organization.


ANSWER: c

Psychology

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What term is most related to how individuals differ in response to a particular situation, often one that is stressful or difficult?

a. resilience b. eminence c. psychophysiology d. autonomy

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In a data set, the measure of variability that indicates how far each individual data point is from the average of the entire set is called the _____

A) standard deviation B) canonical correlation C) regression from the mean D) variance

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