Regarding figure-ground perception, which of the following statements is TRUE?
a. Figures have shape, while ground does not.
b. In the old lady/young lady figure, people most often see the old woman. c. In the vase/profile figure, the vase always represents the figure.
d. Outlines always allow us to distinguish between ground and figure.
e. Humans tend to perceive objects as ground when they have distinctive coloring.
a
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The desire to reduce cognitive ambiguity, which heightens the importance of first impressions, is called
a. the need for closure. b. belief perseverance. c. confirmation bias. d. counterfactual thinking.
In an effort to prevent participants in an experiment from trying to discover or confirm the researcher's predictions and motives, psychologists sometimes:
a. allow participants to consent to the study. b. treat all information as confidential. c. ask each participant to respond honestly. d. deceive participants about the true nature of the study.
In typologies proposed by Hippocrates and Galen, sanguine people were thought to be
a. optimistic. b. irritable. c. depressed. d. calm.
Sperry (1964) examined patients who had their corpus callosum severed. He was interested in investigating __________
a. cerebral lateralization b. animus c. basic functions (e.g., breathing, heart rate, temperature regulation) d. Penfield stimulation