If you lived your entire life in an environment without the straight lines and walls of rectangular buildings, you probably would be less susceptible than a city dweller to the perceptual error involved in the ____
a. ?Müller -Lyer illusion
b. ?moon illusion
c. ?ESP illusion
d. ?Ponzo illusion
ANSWER:
a
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According to the information at the beginning of Chapter 1,
a. women in countries such as Afghanistan are actually treated in a less biased fashion than women in the United States and Canada. b. topics such as pregnancy and rape are now a standard part of introductory psychology textbooks. c. psychologists have typically focused on men's experiences when they study topics such as achievement and retirement. d. women in the United States and Canada consistently earn higher salaries than men if we consider jobs that are traditionally female.
The _____ was developed by Holmes and Rahe as a measure of stress, and ranks 43 life events from most to least stressful and assigns a point value to each.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Mendonca and Brehm (1983) found that overweight children were more likely to lose weight both at the end of the eight-week program and three months later if they:
A. felt responsible for choosing their weight-loss program. B. had been assigned to their "least preferred" treatment program. C. were regularly monitored and penalized for breaking rules. D. were praised and rewarded for even minor weight loss.
In class, Dr. Heyman discussed research on "the min strategy." This strategy is:
a. The tendency to ignore the smallest number when estimating the answers in addition problems (for 30 + 2, ignoring the 2 and estimating that there are 30) b. the tendency to decompose numbers into smaller parts and then recombining them to make them easier to add (for 17+2, changing the problem to 10+7+2, and then to 10 + 9). c. the tendency to start with the smaller addend and then count the other addend (for 3 + 5, count start at 3 and count 4,5,6,7,8) d. the tendency to start with the larger number and then count up the number of times represented by the smaller number (for 31 + 2, starting at 31 and then counting 32, 33)