When a Closet Door Is Closed, Its Shape Is Perceived

question 126

Multiple Choice

When a closet door is closed, its shape is perceived as rectangular. When the same door is opened, the retinal image is trapezoidal, but we realize the shape of the door has not changed due to

• A)size constancy.
• B)interposition.
• C)shape constancy.
• D)convergence.

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Definitions:

Rhizoids

Thread-like structures that anchor nonvascular plants like mosses and liverworts to their substrates, but do not absorb nutrients like true roots.

Cotyledons

Embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, the first to appear from a germinating seed.

Ovule

In seed plants, a structure that contains the female gametophyte and has the potential to develop into a seed.

Seed

The reproductive unit of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant.