While attending a cocktail party, you find you can clearly hear one particular conversation above all the others, even though that conversation is not very loud. To a Gestalt psychologist, the conversation represents the ______,
and the rest of the
party is the ______.
a. figure; ground c. object; subject
b. pattern; whole d. object; ground
A
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a. Enter clinic, tell mom she feels better, sit in waiting room, see doctor, get shot (inoculation) in arm, cry b. Realizing that doctors earn money so that they can buy things c. Envisioning herself performing brain surgery on a patient d. Remembering that her favorite television show, ER, is also about doctors
In general, more exposure to an object or person means more liking. However, this is usually only true if the initial response to the object or person is neutral. More exposure to someone we don't like can lead to even more dislike. Think of someone you know who doesn't seem to like you. What might you be able to do to get that person to like you more, based on the other variables in this section of the chapter?
What will be an ideal response?
The __________ period of cognitive development is marked by rapid development of
language usage and of the ability to represent objects symbolically. a. sensorimotor b. preoperational c. concrete operational d. formal operational e. cognitive
According to the _____ perspective, medical conditions (i.e., AIDS) depend on the interaction of genes, lifestyle, immunity, social support, and self-perceptions
A) psychophysiological B) biopsychosocial C) psychoneuroimmunology D) psychological