If you heard only the individual notes of your favorite song played one per hour, you would not recognize it. However, when these notes are played together in the correct order and close in time as a melody, your favorite song is easily recognizable. The importance of being able to hear a melody rather than individual notes illustrates which school of thought in psychology?
a. Gestalt psychology
b. structuralism
c. behaviorism
d. psychodynamic psychology
A
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Frederick learns that he has a progressive muscular disease that is going to end his life within the next two years. The way he copes with his pending death changes drastically when he has to move from his home to a nursing care facility. The ________ theory of dying reminds us that such socio-environmental changes must be considered as we think about the way a person copes with their own death
a. sociological b. structural c. interpersonal d. contextual
It is estimated that psychologists have testified as expert witnesses on eyewitness testimony in roughly ______ cases in the United States
A. 100 B. 500 C. 1000 D. 5000
As N gets _______, the critical value of t gets _________
a. larger; larger c. larger; smaller b. smaller; smaller d. smaller; larger
According to your text, which of the following is a crucial milestone in cognitive development and the basis for human language?
Deferred imitation Unconscious symbolism Mental representation Object permanence