An Important Point from the Authors' Discussion on Why People

question 119

Multiple Choice

An important point from the authors' discussion on why people need to care about the dangers of pseudoscience is that

• A)harm rarely results from pseudoscientific beliefs or treatments.
• B)a lack of critical thinking may lead to a variety of negative outcomes on many different levels of society.
• C)people are often quite accurate and unbiased in their day-to-day decision making.
• D)quackery and pseudoscience are especially easy to detect without exposure to critical thinking or scepticism.

Recognize the influence of cultural differences on visual illusions.

Identify the role of different monocular and binocular cues in perceiving depth.

Comprehend the phenomenon and examples of perceptual constancy.

Explain how visual illusions can distort perception.

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