What is a "top-down" approach to visual perception?
a. First focusing on the details and then putting them together
b. Starting with brain activity and proceeding to the muscles
c. Applying expectations to guide interpretation of vision
d. Asking the leader of each group of people to decide what the others will view
c
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A. 40 percent B. 50 percent C. 80 percent D. 90 percent
A chief characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder is:
A) anxiety in situations in which the person will be observed by others. B) symptoms such as psychic numbing,reliving of the trauma,and increased physiological arousal. C) exaggerated fear of a particular situation,activity,or object. D) recurrent,persistent,unwished-for thoughts or images.
The textbook presents an anecdote dealing with the Wolof people of Senegal. The incident that is described involves the apparent suicide of a woman and the emotional response of the onlookers. The point that the anecdote makes is that
a. there are cultural norms for the expression of emotion. b. people throughout the world recognize the same basic emotions. c. the range of emotional expression is genetically inherited. d. cultures express all emotions in the same way.
A consequence of the fact that some members of a species produce more offspring than
other members of the species is a. evolution. b. adaptive significance. c. reproductive success. d. natural selection. e. environmental evolution.