The image of a cat from 20 feet away occupies about the same amount of space on your retina as an inch-long piece of candy in your hand. Yet you still perceive the cat as larger than the piece of candy because of ______________
a. shape constancy c. size constancy
b. retinal disparity d. brightness constancy
C
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The two-tailed p value that a statistical program produces refers to
a. the value of t. b. the probability of getting at least that large a value of t if the null hypothesis is false. c. the probability of getting at least that large an absolute value of t if the null hypothesis is true. d. the probability that the null hypothesis is true.
The scene of a human sitting at a computer terminal, responding to stimuli flashed on the computer screen, would most likely be described as depicting a(n) experiment
a. information processing b. analytic introspection c. operant conditioning d. behaviorist
Brenda is developing a test to identify children who are likely to become "school refusers" (i.e., they refuse to attend school). She wants to be certain that her test accurately measures enduring tendencies in the children, so she administers it on two occasions, several weeks apart. Brenda is concerned about the test's ____
a. face validity b. consequential validity c. test-retest reliability d. split-half reliability
In people who have been blind since birth and who then have had their sight restored, depth perception ________
a) is absent or severely limited b) is fully present c) takes a while to recover d) is slightly limited