A. connectedness
B. interposition
C. continuity
D. closure
Related Mcqs:
- The tendency to see all the individual spokes in a bicycle wheel as part of a larger single unit best illustrate the principle of:
A. Connectedness
B. interposition
C. continuity
D. closure - In a weight-reduction experiment, an overweight individual was given what the researcher called a new type of diet pill that would help curb the desire to eat in fact. the pill really contained powdered milk, but ever since the individual started taking the diet pill, he has reported that his desire to eat has decreased. This illustrates the:
A. curvilinear relationship
B. effect of extraneous variables
C. natural experiment
D. placebo effect - The principle of connectedness would most likely lead you to perceive all the______as parts of a single unit.
A. Clouds in the sky
B. Fish in the sea
C. Rungs in ladder
D. Words in a sentence - Almost half the birds in the yard were brown cardinals and the rest were bright red cardinals, so jimmy perceived them as two distinct groups of birds. This best illustrates the principle of:
A. proximity
B. relative clarity
C. similarity
D. connectedness - It is easier to see a camouflaged animal when it moves than when it stays still. This illustrates the Gestalt principle of ______________?
A. closure
B. proximity
C. similarity
D. common movement - Two friends quarreled over possession of a single orange without realizing that one of them simply wanted orange juice and the other simply wanted to orange peel to make a cake. This classic episode best illustrates the pitfalls of:
A. a win- lose orientation
B. the fundamental attribution error
C. the mere exposure effect
D. deindividuation - Mr. Noor mistakenly believed that a single intake interview in which he simply described his numerous symptoms to a therapist was a treatment for his distress. His immediate relief from many of his symptoms following this session best illustrates:
A. transference
B. counterconditioning
C. unconditional positive regard
D. the placebo effect - A single, memorable case of welfare fraud has a greater impact on estimates of the frequency of welfare abuse than do statistics showing that this case is actually the exception to the rule. This illustrates that judgments are influenced by the:
A. availability heuristic
B. belief perseverance phenomenon
C. framing effect
D. confirmation bias - Babar was at a football game, and even though people wearing green jackets were spread fairly evenly throughout the stands, he still perceived all the people in green jackets as a single group of visiting fans. Babar’s perception is most consistent with the Gestalt principle of:
A. Constancy
B. Similarity
C. Closure
D. Proximity - Who would have been most enthusiastic about the value of a single intelligence test score as an index of an individual’s mental capacities?
A. Thurstone
B. Sternberg
C. Gardner
D. Spearman
