You are driving down an unfamiliar road when it suddenly ends with two side roads from which to choose

Without a road sign, you choose the road that is only slightly angled rather than the road which makes a ninety degree angle with your original road. Your tendency to see the road chosen as part of the original road illustrates which perceptual principle?
a. similarity
b. continuation
c. nearness
d. figure-ground

ANSWER: b

Psychology

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Male and female superego development are different, according to Freud, because

A) fathers usually spend little time at home. B) girls usually have better language skills than boys. C) parents usually want to have a son, rather than a daughter. D) boys have penises, but girls don't.

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