________ focus on the ways we organize bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes.

A. Taylor's principles of scientific management
B. The theories of the neoclassical period
C. The theories that belong to the bureaucratic approach
D. Gestalt laws of organization


Answer: D

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a. A monkey learns to fear a snake after observing its mother’s reaction. b. A blackbird learns to mob owls after watching other birds do it. c. A rat develops an aversion to a food it was eating with a companion after seeing the companion get sick. d. A dog pushes a screen out of the way of food to the left after seeing another dog move the screen that way.

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In one study, researchers showed infants moving circles, moving circles with scrambled facial features, and moving circles with regular facial features. The researchers measured eye gazes at the objects and found that infants tracked the:

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The cognitive-developmental perspective __________

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