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Looking out the window, you perceive a tree in front of a car. Even though the tree interrupts your visual image of the car, you still perceive the car to be a solid shape, not split where the tree blocks your view of it. This is an example of the principle of:

Linda emailed a questionnaire for all the students at her university to fill out for her senior thesis psychology study.  The research method that Linda is utilizing is called a:

Kelly fell asleep and is picturing herself walking down a sidewalk. Suddenly, she imagines herself tripping off the curb.  While this occurs in her mind, her leg kicks out in bed due to a muscle spasm, which wakes her up.  The stage of sleep that this occurs in is:

Lynn is watching a movie while relaxing in her dorm room.  She is so focused on the movie that she did not realize her roommate walked into the room and sat at her desk.  This is an example of __________.

According to Freud’s unconscious wish fulfillment theory of dreams, the __________ content of the dream is the hidden symbolic meaning that is supposedly uncovering what is in your unconscious mind.

All of the following are ethics in psychological research EXCEPT:

Which of the following is NOT a reason why we sleep?

In an experiment, the variable that the researcher has control over is called the __________ variable.

Which of the 5 major perspectives in psychology do you believe influences our behaviors and mental processes the most? Explain your answer thoroughly.

Neither the participants nor the researchers know which group each participation is in, which is called a __________ design.