To perceive the size of an object remaining the same even though the retinal image changes is called
a. perceptual closure.
b. size constancy.
c. retinal disparity.
d. psychophysics.
Ans: b. size constancy.
You might also like to view...
Which one of the following is not a type of interaction?
a. main effect b. ceiling effect c. antagonistic d. synergistic
How do construct, linguistic, and metric equivalence influence the development of measures of strengths on a cross-cultural basis?
What will be an ideal response?
Which fact does NOT support the idea that the amount of information that can be stored in short-term memory (STM) is determined by the number of chunks?
A) Organizing digits into larger numbers allows people to remember more digits at one time. B) There is a limit to the number of units of information that can be stored in STM at one time. C) Chunking can increase the amount of information people can place in STM. D) Individuals can remember more words from a list of single-syllable words than they can from a list of four- or five-syllable words.
You are a participant in an experiment in which you are first shown a lighted square that
reads: "Press this square." When you press the square, a piece of candy drops into a tray below the square. To know whether you are involved with Pavlov's procedure, you would need to determine a. the reliability with which the lighted square preceded the candy. b. if an escape response is being used. c. whether the candy elicits salivation, or orientation, or both. d. the reliability with which pressing the square precedes the candy. e. whether the appearance of the lighted square always resulted in the response of pressing it.