After she received a free hand- painted Christmas ornament from a religious organization, Mrs. Montevecchi felt obligated to mail a cash donation to the organization, Her response to the free gift best illustrates the impact of:

Related Mcqs:

1. Because she believes that boys are naughtier than girls, Mrs. Zumpano, a second-grade teacher, watches boys more closely than she watch girls for any signs of misbehavior. Mrs. Zumpano’s surveillance strategy best illustrates:

   A. the framing effect
   B. the availability heuristic
   C. confirmation bias
   D. functional fixedness

2. Ashley is trying to create a small Christmas village on the mantle of her fireplace. She bought 3-inch high figures to put near the back. Ashley is trying to increase the impression of depth in her Christmas village through the use of:

   A. texture gradient
   B. linear perspective
   C. light and shadow
   D. relative size

3. As she gazed down from a bridge at the rapidly flowing river. Naila felt as though she were moving. Her experience best illustrates the phenomenon of:

   A. Retinal disparity
   B. The phi phenomenon
   C. Visual capture
   D. Location constancy

4. Which THREE of the following are true regarding habituation and dishabituation?
   1:Habituation involves a gradual reduction in the magnitude of the response to repeated presentation of the response of a stimulus
   2:In dishabituation, the response returns when a salient extraneous stimulus is presented just before a trial with the habituated stimulus
   3:Habituation is caused by sensory-motor fatigue
   4:Habituation occurs as a consequence of the repeated presentation of a single event

   A. 1,2 & 3
   B. 2,3 & 4
   C. 1,2 & 4
   D. 4

5. The sequentially flashing Christmas tree lights appeared to generate pulsating waves of motion. This best illustrates:

   A. Visual capture
   B. Relative motion
   C. Retinal disparity
   D. The phi phenomenon

6. Because she was listening to the news on the radio, Mrs. Salim didn’t perceive a word her husband was saying. Her experience best illustrates:

   A. Perceptual adaptation
   B. Relative clarity
   C. Change blindness
   D. The cocktail party effect

7. The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates the importance of:

   A. Feature detection
   B. Blindsight
   C. Top-down processing
   D. Synesthesia

8. The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates the importance of:

   A. feature detection
   B. blindsight
   C. top-down processing
   D. synesthesia

9. 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

10. Because Ken is 6 6, people often mistakenly assume that he must be a member of his college’s basketball team. The mistaken judgement best illustrates the impact of:

    A. the availability heuristic
    B. confirmation bias
    C. the representativeness heuristic
    D. the belief perseverance phenomenon