When Bill looks at his lamp alternately with his left eye and right eye, the image seems to jump from one position to another. This phenomenon illustrates

a. the Gestalt principle of similarity.
b. retinal disparity.
c. interposition.
d. the Gestalt principle of proximity.
e. convergence.


b. retinal disparity

Psychology

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A. rejection of their ethnic-racial identity B. negative attitudes toward their ethnicity C. greater exploration of ethnic identity D. lack of knowledge about ethnic-racial identity

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The person considered to be the father of psychiatric classification and a major contributor to the biological model was

a. Emile Durkheim. b. Emil Kraepelin. c. Philippe Pinel. d. Clifford Beers.

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You are visiting some friends who have a three-year-old who is being toilet trained. You hear the mother reinforcing the child after he says that he has to urinate, after he enters the bathroom, and after he uses the toilet. The mother has used the operant technique called:

A. discrimination B. spontaneous recovery C. shaping D. extinction

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According to terror management theory, which factor would NOT be a cultural worldview?

A) Christianity B) a public opinion poll on preference between two candidates for prime minister C) shared beliefs about what is right and wrong D) shared hopes of a symbolic immortality held even by atheists

Psychology