Brightness constancy occurs in part because
a. of failures in the visual system to deal with illumination changes.
b. the proportion of light an object reflects is constant.
c. brightness is a perceptual hypothesis.
d. of all of these.
B
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Which activity represents a fine motor skill?
A. drawing detailed pictures B. throwing a football C. balancing on one foot D. running and skipping
Clarice was in a meeting with several other employees when her boss started to criticize a proposal Clarice had put together for the marketing department. As he started into his critique, Clarice's heart rate and respiration increased, and she could feel her face and hands become flushed and red. According to Selye's general adaptation syndrome, Clarice was experiencing
a. a resistance reaction b. physiological exhaustion c. autonomic rebound d. an alarm reaction
Research supports all of the following EXCEPT that
a. adrenal gland activity around age 10 appears to be linked to the first sexual attraction. b. attitudes concerning sexual behavior vary between cultures. c. the first sexual attraction tends to occur prior to the maturation of the sex organs. d. sexual behavior in puberty is best conceptualized as being solely driven by hormones.
Sir Frederic Bartlett's observation that people often remember what should have happened or what ought to have happened instead of what actually happened is an illustration of the memory sin of:
A) transience. B) memory misattribution. C) bias. D) suggestibility.