When Bill looks at his lamp alternately with his
left eye and right eye, the image seems to jump from one position to another. This phenomenon illustrates ______.
a) the Gestalt principle of similarity
b) binocular disparity
c) interposition
d) the Gestalt principle of proximity
ANS: b
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A. Children raised by gay parents are more likely to be unhappy than children raised by straight parents are. B. Gay and lesbian relationships are less enduring and more dysfunctional than straight relationships are. C. Children raised by gay parents are just as likely to be straight as children raised by straight parents. D. In same-sex relationships, one person plays the "husband" role and the other plays the "wife" role.
Which of the following might one do in order to increase the power of a z test?
a. Increase the sample size. b. Use a two-tailed test. c. Decrease sample size. d. None of the above.
Agreement to participate in a study following disclosure of information about its purposes and potential risks and benefits is called
a. confidentiality. b. critical thinking. c. informed consent. d. ethics review. e. replication.
Suppose you are interested in how participants perform under different temperature conditions. You select 30 participants and assign them to work in one of three rooms. The rooms differ only with respect to temperature. You instruct all participants to solve the same jigsaw puzzle, and then you measure how long it takes each one to finish. In this research, the experimenter is investigating
whether a. participants can solve a jigsaw puzzle in different rooms. b. participants can solve a jigsaw puzzle under different temperature conditions. c. the time required to solve a jigsaw puzzle depends on temperature. d. temperature depends on the time required to solve a jigsaw puzzle.