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Question 31

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After living together for a year,Sylvia and Yefim have decided to marry. Research on premarital cohabitation most strongly suggests that

A) they have more positive attitudes toward the institution of marriage than the average couple.
B) their marriage will have a higher-than-average probability of being successful.
C) most of their college friends and acquaintances have viewed their cohabitation negatively.
D) their marriage will have a higher-than-average probability of ending in divorce.

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Question 32

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When stabilized retinal images of an initially presented word disappear,new words made up of parts of the initial word will subsequently appear and then vanish. This best illustrates the impact of

A) subliminal stimulation.
B) top-down processing.
C) Weber's law.
D) accommodation.

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Question 33

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The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as

Menopause refers to

The direct link between a single cone and a single ________ preserves the fine details in the cone's message.

To maximize your sensitivity to fine visual detail you should

Superman's eyes used ________,while his brain used ________.

Which of the following terms refers to a person's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills?

Sixty-five-year-old Calvin cannot reason as well as he could when he was younger. More than likely,Calvin's ________ intelligence has declined.

________ processing refers to how the physical characteristics of stimuli influence their interpretation.

Accommodation refers to the

According to Erikson,adolescence is to identity as late adulthood is to

If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so,you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates

In experiments,an image is quickly flashed and then replaced by a masking stimulus that inhibits conscious perception of the original image. In these experiments,the researchers are studying the effects of

Jennifer can tune her guitar more effectively than Maria because Jennifer is better at detecting whether specific strings are playing too sharp or too flat. With respect to tone sensitivity,Maria apparently has a ________ threshold than does Jennifer.

Wavelength is to ________ as ________ is to brightness.

The age at which people are expected to leave home,get a job,and marry has changed dramatically in Wallonia over the past 50 years. Developmentalists would say that the country's ________ has been altered.

Fluid intelligence refers most directly to a person's

Given the text discussion of life satisfaction patterns,which of the following people is likely to report the greatest life satisfaction?

Simultaneously analyzing distinct subunits of information received by different areas of the brain is known as