A field that attempts to understand the links between cognitive processes and brain activity is:

While attending a cocktail party, you find you can clearly hear one particular conversation above all the others, even though that conversation is not very loud. To a Gestalt psychologist, the conversation represents the ______,

and the rest of the party is the ______. a. figure; ground c. object; subject b. pattern; whole d. object; ground

A neighborhood committee is debating whether to spend money on a fireworks celebration. At first, every member favors moderate spending for fireworks. What will probably happen after a discussion?

a. The committee will split into opposing factions and fail to make a decision. b. The committee will spend less than what most members originally favored. c. The committee will spend more than what most members originally favored. d. The committee will spend about the average of what most members originally favored.