Which of the Following Would Serve as an Example of a Cross

question 79

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would serve as an example of a cross sectional study?

• A) Uniform Crime Reports
• B) the 2010 U.S. census
• C) a single wave of the National Crime Victimization Survey
• D) both Uniform Crime Reports and a single wave of the National Crime Victimization Survey

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Definitions:

Gestalt Principle

A theory in psychology that proposes the human brain perceives whole objects rather than merely the sum of their parts.

Closure

The psychological term for the human desire to seek a sense of completeness and certainty in perceiving patterns.

Perceptual Set

A psychological mechanism that influences how we interpret sensory information, often based on our expectations, experiences, and context.

Bottom-up Processing

A type of information processing based on incoming data from the environment to form a perception. It starts with the sensory input and ends with the brain's interpretation of this input.