If you were asked to look at an advertisement of various
shops on a city street, and you saw an octopus sitting on a bench near the curb in front of one of the shops, you would most likely
a. show inattentional blindness to the octopus.
b. look longer at the octopus because it was an unexpected object.
c. look a shorter time at the octopus because it was out-of-place in the advertisement.
d. look the same length of time to each object in the advertisement, regardless of whether it was an expected or unexpected object.
ANSWER: b
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Haier believes his research shows that higher intellectual performances are related to
a. greater brain efficiency. b. having larger corpus callosums. c. having "harder working" brains. d. all of these.
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a. John B. Watson b. Wilhelm Wundt c. Abraham Maslow d. Max Wertheimer
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