The water jug experiment (Luchins, 1942) illustrates __________
a. preservative fixation
b. Gestalt influences
c. negative set
d. insight through analogy
Answer: c
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Seligman and others have argued that there is a close connection between depression and
a. situational attributions. b. reaction formation. c. emotional denial. d. learned helplessness.
A _______________ study is a descriptive study that looks for a consistent relationship between two phenomena
a. causal b. case c. correlational d. exploratory
A professor's desk holds a piece of pottery that is used to hold pens. It partially blocks the
professor's view of the telephone. Thus, the telephone appears farther away than the pottery. The cue to depth here is called a. texture. b. linear perspective. c. shading. d. interposition. e. retinal disparity.
Rieser and colleagues (1994) studied kindergarten children's spatial imagery and showed that ___
a. motor activity facilitates children's ability to imagine distant spatial locations b. children are not able to imagine distant spatial locations until they are at least six years old c. children are able to imagine a distant spatial location if they have extensive experience in the location d. children rely on allocentric representations when imagining a distant spatial location