A moving object high in the sky was seen as an enemy aircraft by the soldier on guard, but as a bird by the bird watcher doing a bird count. This is explained best by:
a. recognition by components theory
b. Gestalt principles of perceptual organization
c. top-down processing
d. transduction
C
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Francis Galton believed that intelligence was:
A. acquired or learned B. inherited or biological C. correlated with brain size D. due to both nature and nurture
Which research strategy is least concerned with examining relationships between variables?
a. descriptive b. correlational c. experimental d. quasi-experimental
Which statement accurately summarizes the effects of sleep on long-term storage?
A) Sleep facilitates long-term storage because it protects us from encountering new information that interferes with consolidation. B) Sleep facilitates the consolidation of trivial information that might be discarded as unimportant in the fully conscious state. C) Sleep facilitates the consolidation of important and highly emotional memories. D) Sleep facilitates long-term storage because it decreases emotionality that often interferes with consolidation.
Emotional development in older children is closely affiliated with advances in cognition that
a. appear to have the same brain wave patterns as the primary emotions. b. appear to have the same brain wave patterns as the complex emotions. c. allow them to think in more complex, abstract terms. d. allow them to associate emotions with situations rather than with internal psychological states.