You have a pair of pilers and a bag of nuts in the shell. You are lamenting the fact that you can’t shell the nuts because you do not have a nutcracker. Your inability to perceive the pilers as a makeshift nutcracker demonstrates_______on your part.

Related Mcqs:

1. Gestaltists refer to the fact that we perceive smooth flowing forms more readily than discrete forms as ______________?

   A. similarity
   B. symmetry
   C. holistic perception
   D. continuity

2. Apraxia is characterized by an inability to _______________?

   A. organize movements in terms of purpose
   B. do something when instructed verbally
   C. make movements
   D. both a and b

3. Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fell asleep is most likely due to ____________________?

   A. encoding failure
   B. the misinformation effect
   C. retroactive interference
   D. motivated forgetting

4. The temporary inability to retrieve a word that is well-known to us is referred to as the:

   A. Recency effect
   B. Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
   C. Wernicke’s aphasia
   D. Acquired dyslexia
   E. Broca’s aphasia

5. “I believed Ahmad’s anxiety and defensiveness are the result of an unrealistic self-image and an inability to take responsibility for her feelings.” This statement would most likely have been made by a:

   A. psychodynamic theorist
   B. Freudian therapist
   C. humanistic psychologist
   D. behavioristic theorist

6. In gamete development, the fact that each mature egg or sperm contains only one chromosome from each pair is attributable to a process known as ______________?

   A. fertilization
   B. immunization
   C. reduction division
   D. zygotic division

7. It has been suggested that Alaskan Eskimos’ rich vocabulary for describing snow enables them to perceive differences in snow conditions that would otherwise go unnoticed. This suggestion most clearly illustrates:

   A. belief perseverance
   B. the farming effect
   C. the representativeness heuristic
   D. linguistic determinism

8. The tendency to perceive continuous patterns in stimuli is known as _________________?

   A. good continuation
   B. closure
   C. proximity
   D. None of these

9. If the human eye was not responsive to differences in the wavelength of light, we would not be able to perceive differences in:

   A. Intensity
   B. Color
   C. Purity
   D. Brightness

10. The light around the movie marquee flashed on-and-off in succession However, Jamil did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. Jamil’s perception illustrates:

    A. Feature detection.
    B. Bottom-up processing
    C. Pre-attentive processing
    D. The phi phenomenon