At 8 Months Gestation, a Fetus Hears a Phone Ring

question 42

Multiple Choice

At 8 months gestation, a fetus hears a phone ring repeatedly and is likely to experience _____ over the course of several minutes.

• A) initial changes in heart rate, with decreased changes as the ringing continues
• B) initial changes in heart rate, with increased changes as the ringing continues
• C) no changes in heart rate initially but increased changes as the ringing continues
• D) no changes in heart rate throughout the ringing

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Definitions:

Contiguity

A Gestalt principle of perception; the tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related.

Continuity

A Gestalt principle of perception; the tendency to perceive things as simply as possible with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern.

Depth Perception

The visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions, enabling the estimation of distances.

Contiguity

The state of being close together in time or space, often used in psychology to describe how stimuli or events are associated through their proximity.