At the national cheerleading contest, all the contestants are seated in one area within the stadium. Although 1,000 students are seated in this area, your eyes discern about 100 groups due to each group of cheerleaders having different color outfits. The way you grouped these students is most likely due to the perceptual principle of
a. continuity.
b. nearness.
c. similarity.
d. contiguity.
C
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How might an investigator test for the concept of conservation? a. Place a toy behind a barrier and see whether the child reaches around it to get the toy
b. Ask a hypothetical question, such as "How could we move a mountain of whipped cream from one part of the city to another?" c. Show the child two equal rows of coins and then spread out one row and ask whether the rows are still the same. d. Demonstrate a way of playing with a toy, then give the child the toy and see whether he or she plays with it the same way.
Which of the following statements best describes the term teamthink?
a) It leads to social loafing and general apathy toward work and productivity. b) It is to a collective pattern of thinking that hinders effective group decisions. c) It is generally characterized by direct pressure; self-censorship; illusions of invulnerability, unanimity, or morality; mind guarding; collective rationalization; and shared stereotypes. d) It involves the encouragement of divergent views, open expression of concerns and ideas, awareness of limitations and threats, recognition of members' uniqueness, and discussion of collective doubts.
Proximity refers to
a. physical nearness. b. physical similarity. c. attitudinal similarity. d. physical attractiveness.
At midterm, a college determines that 300 of its students are at risk for suspension this semester. Its tutoring center argues that, with a series of targeted emails encouraging students to come in for help, it can promise to certainly save 100 of those students from suspension. However, an external firm approaches the college with an offer to start a new program, with a 1/3 chance of preventing all 300 students from being suspended (and a 2/3 chance of saving none of these students). Under which circumstances is the college most likely to hire the external firm?
a. the tutoring center and the external firm emphasize the number of students to be "saved" in their presentations b. the tutoring center and the external firm emphasize the number of students who will be suspended under each of their programs c. the tutoring center emphasizes the potential number of students to be suspended, while the external firm emphasizes the potential number of students saved from suspension d. both the tutoring center and the external firm place equal emphasis on the students to be "saved" and the students who will be suspended under each approach