Imagine that you are standing on a pair of railroad tracks. As you look down at your feet, the tracks look a certain distance apart. As you lift your head and watch the tracks move away from you, they appear to get closer together until they converge at the farthest point. This bit of visual trickery is called
a. the texture gradient
b. the linear perspective.
c. the retinal disparity.
d. the visual cliff.
b
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a. individuals compare their position to other members’ positions, and find that others are more extreme than they are. b. groups generate more arguments in favor of one position rather than another and the members shift their opinions in that direction. c. groups implicitly adopt decision rules that prompt them to support more extreme decisions. d. groups value caution more than risk, but can’t make a clear comparison between these two values.
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