To achieve the fullest understanding of something, a Gestalt approach advocates identification of individual components comprising the whole, in some way prioritizing them in order of importance, and then studying each one in turn building a cumulative knowledge of the whole. This approach is known as
a. insight.
b. prägnanz.
c. closure.
d. This is not a Gestalt approach.
D
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a. expectations by both the experimenter and the participants b. expectations in the participants c. the independent variable d. any confounding variables
After receiving several tickets for speeding, Joseph lost his driver's license for several months. When he got his driver's license back, Joseph stopped speeding. The reason he stopped speeding is due to the consequence known as
a. negative reinforcement. b. positive punishment. c. negative punishment. d. response chaining.
Which of the following statements best characterizes the memory system?
a. an automatic and unchanging means of storing exact copies of experience b. a vast storehouse from which specific facts can be retrieved when they are needed c. a dusty archive in which interesting, but often irrelevant, relics are housed d. an active system for manipulating information
What kind of name is Provigil (an alerting drug)?
A. chemical name B. generic name C. brand name D. none of the above