While you are driving, you make an illegal lane change and see a flashing light behind you. You immediately think, "Ticket time" and prepare to pull over. But as the car behind you draws nearer, you see that is just a car with a vivid turn signal. Your behavior regarding the flashing light illustrates
a. dishabituation.
b. a perceptual set.
c. reality testing.
d. precognition.
B
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A. ignoring obvious ethical problems. B. administrative indifference toward integrity. C. lack of a published Code of Ethics for the organization. D. a survival-of-the-fittest approach by employees, who commit unethical acts to protect themselves.
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A. have one canal to sense motion in each of the three planes B. can see the world in three dimensions C. can detect sound locations in the three-dimensional world D. have an extra if one is broken
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A) ?yellowish-orange key B) ?yellow key C) ?blue key D) ?reddish-orange key