A Quarter Appears Larger to a Group of Children Who

question 32

Multiple Choice

A quarter appears larger to a group of children who really want the money than to another group of children who don't.This best illustrates the importance of

• A) masking stimuli.
• B) top-down processing.
• C) sensory adaptation.
• D) subliminal stimulation.

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Definitions:

Viktor Frankl

An Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a form of existential analysis focused on finding purpose through life's challenges.

Structures of Personality

Theoretical frameworks in psychology that describe the composition of an individual's personality, often involving concepts such as the id, ego, and superego.

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, it's the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.

Ego

A part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity.