When You Observe a Chair,you Immediately Are Able to Detect

question 65

Multiple Choice

When you observe a chair,you immediately are able to detect what material it is made of,how much weight it can hold,and how you might sit in it.This best illustrates which idea in direct perception?

• A)agnosia
• B)configuration effect
• C)geons
• D)affordances

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Definitions:

Fundamental Attribution Error

A bias in social psychology where individuals overestimate the role of dispositional factors and underestimate situational factors in explaining other people's behavior.

Dispositional Explanations

An approach to explaining behavior by attributing it to internal traits or personality factors of the individual.

Reformulated Learned Helplessness

A theory suggesting that individuals learn they have no control over unpleasant or harmful situations, which leads to passive and depressive responses, revised to include the role of cognitive factors.

Universal Helplessness

A theory suggesting a belief in being unable to control or influence outcomes in most or all areas of life, leading to a state of passive resignation.