Elizabeth's sister, Meredith, isn't answering her phone when Elizabeth calls. Elizabeth thinks, "Well, either Meredith's phone has been stolen, or the battery died." Concluding that Meredith's battery likely died and that her phone wasn't stolen would best illustrate ______.
A. circular reasoning
B. determinism
C. parsimony
D. testability
Answer: C
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A) psychodynamic B) existentialist C) humanistic D) social–cognitive
If you were an artist and wanted an object to appear far away in your drawing, what monocular cue could you use?
a. relative size c. clearness b. overlapping d. all of these
The walls of a very long, narrow corridor appear to come together as they recede from the viewer. This distance cue is known as ________
a. linear perspective b. aerial perspective c. convergence d. interposition
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a. 5% b. 25% c. 45% d. 85%