One of the authors of your psychology textbook described what appeared to be an apparent murder, but it turned out to be something quite different. The girl's words that "someone is killing her father" had completely shaped the author's perceptions. This illustrates that our experiences are filtered through our expectations and beliefs to form
a. attentional creations.
b. perceptual constructions.
c. sensory accommodations.
d. assimilated constructs.
B
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The process by which small objects become perceptually grouped to form larger objects is the principle of
a. conjunction. b. perceptual organization. c. perceptual discriminability. d. perceptual fusion.
According to Sarah, she finds her life close to ideal, and, so far, has gotten most of what she has wanted in life. In fact, if she had the opportunity to live her life over, she says that she would change almost nothing. Sarah is high in
a. life satisfaction. b. self-efficacy. c. actualized living. d. resiliency.
Bandura believes that
A. self-efficacy is another term for locus of control. B. self-efficacy and self-concept are synonymous. C. people have different levels of self-efficacy in different situations. D. high levels of self-efficacy generalize to widely different situations.
The genetic component of Panic Disorder appears to be
A) due to a single gene. B) connected to the gene for obsessive compulsive disorder. C) due to the heritability of neuroticism. D) nonexistant.