Regarding defense mechanisms, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The use of defense mechanisms creates large blind spots in awareness.
b. Everyone has at one time or another used defense mechanisms.
c. Most of the defense mechanisms were first identified by Carl Rogers.
d. Defense mechanisms reduce anxiety by distorting or denying sources of threat.
C
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The proportion of variation in the criterion that is knowable in advance from knowledge of the test scores can be found by
a. construct-irrelevant variance. b. the validity coefficient. c. squaring the validity coefficient. d. the square root of the validity coefficient.
Feature detection theory states that ____
a. ?our visual cortex has specialized cells that fire only in response to specific stimuli b. ?only stimuli that have specific features will cause our sensory systems to detect them c. ?stimuli with the most distinctive features will be the ones most likely to catch our attention d. ?our brains default to top-down processing once we have detected the key features of a situation
What does George Miller mean by the "Magic Number Seven plus or minus two"?
a. The number of pieces of information the average person can easily recall after a single exposure. b. The amount of information that can be memorized in one sitting. c. The number of saccadic eye movements in a fixation. d. The time it takes information to pass from short-term memory to long-term memory.
The decrease in sensory response to an unchanging stimulus is known as
a. sensory conflict. b. sensory gating. c. sensory adaptation. d. selective attention.