What Is Ageism

question 6

Multiple Choice

What is ageism?

• A) the belief that age is associated with certain psychological, behavioural, and intellectual traits
• B) the belief that youth should respect their elders
• C) the rejection of authority based on age
• D) the widespread cultural fear of aging and death

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Definitions:

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.

Phi Phenomenon

The optical illusion of perceiving continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession.