Deciding Whether to Study an Additional Hour for an Exam

question 86

Multiple Choice

Deciding whether to study an additional hour for an exam by comparing the additional benefits to the additional costs of an extra hour of study is an example of:

• A) normative analysis.
• B) transformational thought.
• C) marginal thinking.
• D) None of the answers is correct.

Recognize how environmental factors and personal motives affect attention.

Identify the effects of perceptual sets on perception and judgment.

Describe the process and impact of bottom-up and top-down processing in perception.

Distinguish between different types of perceptual constancies.

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