Some people may wear dark clothes with stripes that go up and down because they look thinner in these clothes. This is most likely an example of a(n)
a. hallucination.
b. distraction.
c. perceptual set.
d. illusion.
e. the law of continuity.
d. illusion.
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a. They had relied too much on information from their own senses. b. They had relied too much on rational thought. c. They assumed the cosmos was constant and unchanging. d. They assumed the cosmos was unmoving.
Ray attended a summer camp where the counselors gave campers a pin when they did something good and took away a pin when they did something bad. Later, the pins could be spent at the camp store. What technique were the counselors using?
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