A Community Policing Program Began in an Entertainment Area in a Large

question 54

Multiple Choice

A community policing program began in an entertainment area in a large metropolitan area.City leaders are interested to see if the change in policing strategy has reduced the number of crimes and has asked faculty from a local university to complete a study.What type of evaluation would be best?

• A) interrupted time-series
• B) ex-post evaluation
• C) non-equivalent groups
• D) class experiment

Grasp the effects of attention and how it is managed and manipulated in cognitive processes.

Understand the role of cognitive psychology in exploring and explaining human thinking and knowledge representation.

Recognize the importance of language acquisition phases and the debate on critical periods for learning.

Learn about conditions affecting language comprehension and speech production.

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Definitions:

Gestalt

A psychological theory that emphasizes the human mind and behavior as being organized into wholes, where the perceived whole is different from and often more than the sum of its parts.

Stimuli

External events or occurrences that can elicit responses from sensory organs, leading to various forms of responses in an organism.

Gestalt Psychology

A psychological approach that emphasizes the holistic and intrinsic properties of perceptual phenomena, focusing on patterns and configurations.

Principle of Closure

A gestalt psychology principle that the mind tends to perceive incomplete figures as complete by filling in missing information.