Which best describes Marr’s constructivist approach to perception?
a. Bottom-up processes are the only way to create perceptions of the world.
b. Bottom-up processes and top-down processes combine to allow us to perceive the world.
c. Top-down processes are the only way in which we can understand perceptions of the world.
d. We do not “perceive” at all, but rather we detect the world as it truly is.
b. Bottom-up processes and top-down processes combine to allow us to perceive the world.
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a. explain how hypotheses relate to larger theories b. state how one variable affects another variable c. explain how independent variables are manipulated by the experimenter d. clarify what the researcher means by a particular variable
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a. observation c. theory b. scientific method d. hypothesis
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a. the truth-wins scheme. c. the majority-wins rule. b. the first-shift rule. d. none of these.
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a. mores b. norms c. roles d. schemas