While at a party, you notice an attractive person staring at you. According to principles of perceptual organization, you are likely to focus on this attractive person as the __________ and relegate other people at the party to be the __________.
A. ground; figure
B. focus; background
C. figure; ground
D. background; focus
Answer: C
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A) They last many sessions and teach skills for handling sexual situations. B) They last only a few sessions and promote the value of abstinence to teenagers who are not yet sexually active. C) They last only a few sessions and provide basic facts about anatomy and reproduction to teenagers who are already sexually active. D) They last many sessions and provide information about and easy access to contraceptives.
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a. perfectly remember the details of events b. use imagined events to guide our experiences for new events c. communicate our memories to others in an accurate fashion d. reconstruct and fill in contextual details of memories