A person's evaluation of a specific target is called a(n):
a) algorithm.
b) attitude.
c) attribution.
d) mental set.
ANS: B
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a. top-down processing. b. bottom-up processing. c. the perceptual set. d. extrasensory perception.
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a. psychodynamic b. existential-humanistic c. behavioral d. cognitive
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A. eating infected beef B. cannibalism C. contamination of surgical instruments D. eating sheep meat infected with "scrapie"
Participants in Shepard and Metzler's research reported that, to decide whether the
geometric shapes were identical, they a. compared the numbers of blocks in each shape. b. estimated the number of steps that would be required in order to alter one of the shapes to make it identical to the other. c. alternately close one eye then the other to see if the images looked different. d. rotated an image of one of the shapes in their heads. e. imagined what each shape would look like if it was rotated 90 degrees.