If you are asked whether one object could be rotated to match another one, you say you answered it by picturing its motion in your head. What evidence did Shepard and Metzler produce to show that your process really is like watching something move?

What will be an ideal response?


They showed people pairs of objects and asked whether one could rotate to match the other one. On trials where the answer was "yes," they found that people's delay in answering was directly proportional to how far the object would have to rotate to match the other. That is, something rotating 60 degrees would take people twice as long to answer as something that had to rotate only 30 degrees.

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a. how often we encounter the information. b. how deeply we process the information. c. how long we are exposed to the information. d. how motivated we are to learn the information.

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A child's brain reaches what percentage of its adult weight by 2 years of age?

A. 25% B. 50% C. 70% D. 85%

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Who proposed that most of the behaviors that people learn are consistent with the subjective concept of the self?

A. Rollo May B. Abraham Maslow C. Carl Rogers D. M. Csikzentmihalyi

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Based on evidence from case studies, the BEST advice about treatment that you could give someone experiencing a conversion disorder is:

a. "Confrontation therapy is the treatment of choice." b. "Find a therapist who is most likely to use approaches that incorporate suggestion, reinforcement, and confrontation." c. "Be very wary of taking antidepressants; they don't work with this disorder." d. "Family therapy has been most heavily researched and seems to show the most promise."

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