As a door opens toward you, you perceive it as a rectangular door. As you go through the door, the actual image changes on the retina (from rectangular to trapezoid). However, you still recognize it as a rectangular door. This is an example of
a. perceptual closure.
b. shape constancy.
c. ambiguous stimuli.
d. retinal disparity.
B
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Malcolm has been watching a roulette-type game at a local charity bazaar. The game has only ten numbers on the wheel, and every number except 8 has come up as a winner during the last 15 minutes. Malcolm decides to bet $10 on number 8, because it has to come up eventually. In this case, Malcolm is showing evidence of
a. the availability heuristic. b. the gambler's fallacy. c. the base rate fallacy. d. the conjunction fallacy.
Proponents of the ___________ perspective believe that behavior is motivated by inner forces, memories, and conflicts of which a person has little awareness
a. behavioral c. cognitive b. psychodynamic d. contextual
We say that conditional distributions are ______ when they all have the same standard deviation.
a. homeostatic b. homogenous c. homoscedastic d. homeostasis
Eyewitnesses sometimes identify as a culprit someone they have seen in another situation or context, which is referred to as __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word