Suppose you are walking to the movie theater on a bright sunny day. Once you enter the dark theater, you nearly trip over your feet because you can't see a thing. After you find a seat, you watch the movie for about thirty minutes and then decide to head to the lobby for some popcorn. When you stand up, you realize that you can see much more clearly than before. This example best illustrates
A. the blind spot.
B. ocular accommodation.
C. dark adaptation.
D. opponent-process theory.
Answer: C
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Seven-year-old Marvin and four-year-old Edgar are sitting at the table as their mother pours milk into their glasses. Both glasses are the same size and shape. However, Marvin's mother notices a chip on the lip of his glass, and decides that it is safer if she pours that milk into another glass. The new glass is shorter and much wider, and when she pours the milk into the new glass Edgar laughs and says that now he has more milk than Marvin. However, Marvin is not upset because he knows that he still got the same amount of milk. Which Piagetian principle is Marvin demonstrating?
A. formal operations B. decentering C. the preoperational stage D. the abstract operational stage
Direction and strength are important in understanding correlation coefficients
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Adverse changes in social interactions after a diagnosis of chronic disease are more likely to be observed in
A. intimate others. B. employers. C. friends and acquaintances. D. family members.
In the generalization gradient produced following simple tone-on S+ discrimination learning (see Exercise 40), the x-axis displays ________ and the y-axis displays ________.
a. responses during the tone; responses during the absence of the tone b. responses during the tone; the different tones used during generalization testing. c. the DS response strength; the different tones used during generalization testing. d. the different tones during generalization testing; responses during the tone.