Continuity is the tendency _________________
a) to perceive objects, or figures, on some background
b) to complete figures that are incomplete
c) to perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping
d) to perceive things as having a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern
ANS: D, Continuity refers to the tendency to perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern.
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After an odd feeling, Jamal took his son's hand and led him quickly away from the stranger on the park bench. What skill is Jamal relying on?
A. intuition B. logic C. cognitive load-shifting D. dual processing
Clay has played professional soccer for seven years and is easily able to tune out the sound of the crowd and all other irrelevant sensory information during the game
Bruce is a rookie and is often distracted by what his opponents are saying and the mood of the crowd. Clay and Bruce are showing differing levels of A) absolute thresholds. B) parallel processing. Incorrect. Parallel processing refers to the ability to attend to many sense modalities simultaneously. C) selective attention. D) top-down processing.
Sir Francis Galton studied intelligence in many prominent English families and concluded from this research that intelligence is __________
a) largely subject to environmental influence. b) inherited. c) determined by an equal influence from the environment and heredity. d) determined by about a 70/30 split in favor of heredity.