Tracing the route of a specific road on a map is not difficult, even though the road may not follow a straight line. This is an illustration of which perceptual principle?
A. Proximity
B. Continuity
C. Similarity
D. Closure
Answer: B
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Isabelle acts as if her therapist is an important person from her past. By doing this, Isabelle will be able to re-experience her repressed emotions with her therapist helping her to recognize and understand these emotions. Freud called this process
a. therapeutic attachment. b. reciprocal inhibition. c. systematic desensitization. d. transference.
Deliberate effort to memorize is most likely to be applied during the encoding of
a. event memories. b. strategic memories. c. foreign memories d. autobiographical memories.
When assessing pictorial depth cues, researchers often cover one eye of the infant. Why is this
an important methodological control? A) So the infant cannot see the stimuli before the researcher presents it. B) To control for kinetic depth cues. C) To control for depth perception. D) To control for binocular depth cues.
With reference to the stages of cognitive development introduced by Piaget, which of the following statements is true regarding the preoperational stage?
A. Typically, children between the ages of 6 months to 1 year are in this stage. B. During this stage children cannot recognize that amounts stay the same when shapes change. C. This stage is characterized my mastering object permanence. D. During this stage children develop scientific reasoning and hypothesis-testing skills.