Jennifer is trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle. Since she has no idea what the completed picture is supposed to be, she has to rely on the shapes and colours of the individual pieces to create and understand the whole picture. We can refer to her efforts to combine individual elements of the puzzle into a unified whole as

a) perceptual organization.
b) top-down processing.
c) bottom-up processing.
d) selective attention.

Ans: c) bottom-up processing.

Psychology

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a) Both techniques ask the patient to free-associate the dream elements. b) Freud concentrated on dream series; Jung dealt with single dreams. c) In Jung's method, no precise effort is made to separate manifest and latent contents. d) Only Freud made frequent reference to mythology and fairy tales in interpreting dreams.

Psychology

The most visible of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States are

A) African Americans. B) Asian Americans. C) Native Americans. D) Hispanic Americans.

Psychology