(a) Rhine called the study of such phenomena as ESP and PK.(b) Many psychologists—perhaps most—are to accept the reality of psi
powers.
Answers: (a) parapsychology; (b) unwilling.SELF-TEST
- According to Koffka, the actual world “out there,” the world as defined by
physics is
a. the phenomenal world
b. the geographical world
c. the psychological world
d. the subjective world - The capacity to see a bird in the sky is an example of
a. the Ponzo illusion
b. a cell assembly working
c. a monocular cue
d. figure-ground perception - One of the following is nota Gestalt law.
a. Proximity
b. Similarity
c. The cognitive hypothesis
d. Closure - What hypothesis states that we not only perceive, but also know what we are
perceiving?
a. The cognitive hypothesis
b. The sensory hypothesis
c. The motor-neuron hypothesis
d. The Wertheimer-Koffka hypothesis - An illusion is
a. a false belief
b. a kind of hallucination
c. the same thing as a delusion
d. a false perception - The vase-faces drawing is said to be ambiguous, meaning that
a. its borders are fuzzy
b. it can be perceived in more than one way
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