Suppose that you are running to catch a subway. You race past a large poster that shows various foods in uncharacteristic colors, such as an orange strawberry and a red carrot. However, you actually perceive a red strawberry and an orange carrot
In Anne Treisman's theory, this phenomenon would be called
a. overactive bottom-up processing.
b. attentional bias.
c. a Gestalt.
d. an illusory conjunction.
Ans: d
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A. anger and depression; anger and annoyance B. anger and annoyance; anger and depression C. anger and annoyance; depression and withdrawal D. depression and withdrawal; anger and annoyance
?Dr. Ford wants to test the hypothesis that room color can affect memory. To that end, he randomly assigns 10 students to a condition where they study a written passage while seated in a room that is painted a lilac color. The other 10 students study the passage while seated in an identical room that is painted bright orange. After both groups studied the passage for one hour, they are given a
multiple-choice test over the material. Dr. Ford then calculates how many questions the students answer correctly. He finds that students in the lilac-room condition score much better than the students in the orange-room condition. Based on this study, what can Dr. Ford conclude? a. ?Room color predicts, but does not cause a change in, memory performance. b. ?Room color causes a change in memory performance. c. ?Students like cool colors better than warm ones. d. ?Warm colors make students angry.
Cones have large receptive fields due to many cones converging on one ganglion cell.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Research has shown tests of cognitive ability to be ________ and tests of personality characteristics to be ________ predictors of job performance
a. highly valid; highly valid b. invalid; highly valid c. invalid; invalid d. highly valid; invalid