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261. When light changes from bright to dim the iris of the eye ________________?
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A. constricts

B. dilates

C. remains the same

D. thickens

262. The law of Effect suggests that _________________________?
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A. Skinners view has been superseded by Hulls

B. practice alone procedures learning

C. in addition to practice there must be reinforcement

D. in addition to reinforcement there must be reward

263. What is not a Gestalt grouping principle of perception?
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A. similarity

B. closure

C. disparity

D. proximity

264. A child is creating new schemata to account for new information, Piaget calls this process _________________?
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A. assimilation

B. operations

C. function autonomy

D. accommodation

265. Which of the following is not a personal factor in perceptual selectivity?
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A. past experience

B. expectation

C. motivation

D. size

266. Erik Erikson maintained that the two basic aspects of life that dominate adulthood are ________________?
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A. identity and independence

B. intimacy and identity

C. intimacy and generativity

D. independence and generativity

267. The repeated presentation of the CS without the UCS results in _________________?
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A. extinction

B. inhibition

C. higher-order conditioning

D. spontaneous recovery

268. Guthrie is most closely associated with which of the following in learning theory?
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A. reinforcement

B. None of these

C. contiguity of S and R D. S-R connection

D. habit strength

269. The receptor of the eye that functions best in dim light is the ______________?
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A. ganglion

B. rod

C. cone

D. fovea

270. The process by which sensory information is converted into neural energy is ______________?
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A. transduction

B. signal detection

C. feature detection

D. sensory adaptation

271. Which process results in the faithful duplication of genetic material?
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A. meiosis

B. genotyping

C. crossing over

D. mitosis

272. A young child who sees a cow for the first time calls it a doggie. This illustrates the process of ________________?
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A. assimilation

B. conservation

C. object prominence

D. accommodation

273. In the technique of shaping behavior, which of the following is used?
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A. neutral acknowledgment

B. negative reinforcement

C. differential reinforcement

D. positive reinforcement

274. Which of the following pictorial cues first came to the attention of Max Wertheimer during a train ride?
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A. texture gradient

B. patterns of shading

C. motive parallax

D. relative size

275. One of the pioneers of the psychology of perception was ________________?
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A. Skinner

B. Jung

C. McDougall

D. Helmholtz

276. The phi-phenomenon __________________________?
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A. occurs in response to a spot of light in a darkened room

B. relates to electrical stimulation of the brain

C. deals with experience common to the state of alpha-wave relaxation

D. occurs in response to sequentially flashing light

277. Hair cells are to audition as _______________ are to vision?
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A. rods and cones

B. corneas

C. bipolar cells

D. pupils

278. According to Piaget, cognitive development occurs through a fixed sequence of stages, each distinguished from the prior stage by a ________________?
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A. increasing use of accommodation

B. increasing use of assimilation

C. larger number of schemes

D. new kind of scheme

279. The DNA containing an individuals genetic information is organized into structure called ________________?
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A. chromosomes

B. genotypes

C. phenotypes

D. zygotes

280. Which of the following cues do artists us to convey depth on a flat canvas?
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A. interposition

B. closure

C. convergence

D. continuity

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