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.
C
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A. no effect B. negative effect C. positive effect D. variable effect
A drug's __________ name indicates the drug's structural formula
a. chemical b. pharmacokinetic c. brand d. generic
Research on handedness demonstrates that __________
A) most left-handers have no developmental problems B) right-handedness is associated with prematurity C) there is little cultural variation in rates of left-handedness D) right-handed children are more likely to be mathematically talented