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241. Choosing a marriage partner and deciding whether or not to have children may be related to Eriksons psychosocial stage of ______________?
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A. generativity vs. isolation

B. trust vs. mistrust

C. integrity vs. despair

D. intimacy vs. isolation

242. According to B.F. Skinner human behavior is controlled primarily by __________________?
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A. unconscious motives

B. external influences

C. emotions

D. biological predispositions

243. Kinesthesis involves _________________?
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A. the bones of the middle ear

B. information from the muscles, tendons and joints

C. the bodys sense of balance

D. membranes within cochlea

244. By which of the following properties of near and distant objects does motion parallax enable a person to judge distance?
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A. None of these

B. texture gradient

C. relative movement

D. relative closure

245. This does not increase the probability of a particular response occurring _________________?
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A. positive reinforcement

B. negative reinforcement

C. punishment

D. shaping

246. Which of the following leads to a decrease in the likelihood of a behavior occurring in the future?
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A. shaping

B. positive reinforcement

C. continuous reinforcement

D. omission training

247. In perceiving the distance a sound has traveled, a person depends heavily upon _________________?
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A. frequency

B. loudness and intensity

C. resonance

D. brightness and hue

248. You see a photograph showing a man, a woman and a car. The two people appear closer to you than the car does because they obscure part of it. This depth cue is called ______________?
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A. linear perspective

B. eye convergence

C. occlusion

D. relative image size of familiar objects

249. In Wolfgang Kohlers experiments, a chimp is put in a cage containing three boxes and a banana suspended high above the animals head. After first trying to jump up to reach the banana, the chimp looks around them then stacks the three boxes so it can climb up to the banana. This is an example of _____________?
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A. insight learning

B. shaping

C. latent learning

D. trial and error

250. The theory of color vision based on the idea that we possess three distinct receptor areas for the three primary colors of light is the ________________?
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A. opponent process theory

B. primary color theory

C. trichromatic theory

D. signal detection theory

251. Downs syndrome is caused by ______________________?
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A. an extra autosome or part of one

B. a missing sex chromosome

C. an extra sex chromosome or part of one

D. a recessive gene

252. The first part of the ear that vibrates in response to incoming sound waves is the _______________?
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A. basilar membrane

B. ossicles

C. eardrum

D. tectorial membrane

253. Giving meaning to sensation refers to ________________?
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A. motivation

B. cognition

C. perception

D. None of these

254. Students stand in groups waiting for someone to unlock their classroom. The people in each group are able to attend to the voices in their own conversation group and screen out the voices in others. This is an example of ______________?
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A. None of these

B. shadowing

C. parallel processing

D. selective listening

255. The degree of concentration or dilution of a color is known as its _______________?
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A. saturation

B. hue

C. brightness

D. volume

256. Among monocular cues for depth perception is ________________?
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A. convergence

B. retinal disparity

C. assimilation

D. interposition

257. In developmental psychology, the term nature refers to _______________ factors that influence development?
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A. physical

B. biological

C. all of these

D. environmental

258. A visual scene can be separated into two parts, the ______________ which is the object that commands our attention, and the ____________ which seems to exist continuously behind the object?
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A. good form, good continuation

B. ground, background

C. good form, circumscription

D. figure, ground

259. Failure to realize how hot the bath water really is after you have been sitting in it for ten minutes best illustrates the process of sensory ______________?
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A. threshold

B. accommodation

C. adaptation

D. continuity

260. According to Erikson, isolation is to intimacy as role confusion is to ________________?
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A. identity

B. inferiority

C. guilt

D. mistrust

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