You are asked to look through an opening into what appears to be an ordinary room that has a small boy standing in the left corner. As the boy walks from the left corner to the right corner, he appears to grow very large. You have just experienced the illusion created by
a. retinal disparity.
b. the Gestalt principle of contiguity.
c. physiological nystagmus.
d. the Ames room.
D
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a. stabilized b. decreased c. increased d. fluctuated
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b. Eating disorders have a high comorbidity with posttraumatic stress disorder. c. Over 80% of people with bulimia had an anxiety disorder at some point during their lives. d. Twenty to thirty percent of all people with bulimia nervosa meet the criteria for a mood disorder during the course of their eating disorder.
According to the article Watch Yourself about behavior modification as a treatment for ADHD, in the phase of fading the students were required to:
(a) try to fade out, making them seem to be invisible (b) score their own behavior correctly with fewer teacher matches (c) perform fewer externalizing behaviors each day or they would be punished (d) perform more externalizing behavior while fading out their internalizing behaviors
Which of the following statements is true of dreams?
A) Dreams can occur in non-REM stage. B) Full-blown dreams are more common during non-REM than REM sleep. C) Dreams occur only in REM stage. D) Dreams coincide with the occurrence of sleep spindles.