You have a craving for ice cream. In the lunch room, you see a large bowl of pistachio ice cream. Excitedly, you run up to the bowl, only to find that it smells like tuna and is, in fact, a large bowl of tuna fish. You have just experienced
a. sensory adaptation.
b. the Gestalt notion of similarity.
c. the failure of a perceptual hypothesis.
d. camouflage interfering with figure-ground organization.
c
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A. presenting problem B. emerging diagnosis C. underlying problem D. clinical diagnosis
If you are like the average person, you can expect to reach the peak of your physical performance in your
a. late teens. b. twenties. c. early thirties. d. late thirties. e. early forties.
Which term describes a developing organism between 8 and approximately 40 weeks following conception in humans??
a. ?zygote b. ?ovum c. ?embryo d. ?fetus
Which statement BEST describes a benefit of transience?
A) It is adaptive to forget information we probably are not going to need. B) Only important sensory experiences are encoded into long-term memory. C) Modifying memories based on new information increases their utility. D) Transience allows us to avoid known capacity issues associated with long-term memory.