Levon was amazed at a magician's trick in which a person in a box appeared to be sawed in half. Levon had perceived the head at one end of the box and the feet at the other end of the box, as belonging to a single person, rather than two separate people. This error in Levon's understanding illustrates the Gestalt principle of:
a. figure-ground
b. proximity
c. common fate
d. good continuation
D
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a. empiricism. b. structuralism. c. functionalism. d. humanism.
Video games may promote positive outcomes, such as __________.
A. aggression B. desensitization C. improvements in basic information-processing speed D. improved visual-spatial skills
______ happens when individuals in a group reduce their levels of effort and coast on the efforts of others.
A. Coordination loss B. Evaluation apprehension hypothesis C. Social loafing D. Process loss
In Lady Macbeth, who washed her hands repeatedly until they were red and raw, Shakespeare provided an example of __________
a) major depressive disorder. b) generalized anxiety disorder. c) a specific phobia. d) obsessive-compulsive disorder.