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Normal vision accompanied by prosopagnosia best illustrates the distinction between absolute thresholds and difference thresholds. subliminal sensation and subliminal persuasion. sensory adaptation and perceptual set. sensation and perception.

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The local fire department sounds the 12 o'clock whistle. The process by which your 2. ears transform the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of a threshold. signal detection. transduction. sensory adaptation.

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3. A subliminal message is one that is presented below one's absolute threshold for awareness. in a manner that is unconsciously persuasive. with very soft background music. repetitiously.

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4. Weber's law is relevant to an understanding of absolute thresholds. difference thresholds. sensory adaptation. subliminal persuasion.

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If you move your watchband up your wrist an 5. inch or so, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates a perceptual set. priming. sensory adaptation. Weber's law.

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6. The wavelength of light determines its

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retinal disparity. brightness. amplitude. hue.

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Multiple ________ send combined messages 8. to a bipolar cell, whereas a single ________ may link directly to a single bipolar cell. rods; cone cones; rod feature detectors; supercell cluster supercell clusters; feature detector

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Receptor cells in the human eye that are the most sensitive to fine detail are called feature detectors. supercell clusters. cones. rods.

The opponent-process theory is most useful for explaining a characteristic of perceptual adaptation. retinal disparity. accommodation. afterimages.

Some stroke victims lose the capacity to perceive motion but retain the capacity to perceive shapes and colors. Others lose the 10. capacity to perceive colors but retain the capacity to perceive movement and form. These peculiar visual disabilities best illustrate our normal capacity for perceptual adaptation. parallel processing. feature detection. accommodation.

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The way in which you quickly group the 11. individual letters in this test item into separate words best illustrates the principle of closure. proximity. interposition. perceptual constancy.

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The fact that we recognize objects as having a 12. consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates interposition. closure. perceptual constancy. linear perspective.

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Immanuel Kant and John Locke would have 14. been most likely to disagree about the extent to which perception is influenced by cultural experience. retinal disparity. accommodation. relative luminance.

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The Moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the Moon as unusually large when it is near the horizon. large when it is high in the sky. bright when it is near the horizon. bright when it is high in the sky.

Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's olfaction. audition. sense of smell. vestibular sense.

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Dissociation has been used as an explanation for the McGurk effect. synesthesia. hypnotic pain relief. stereophonic hearing.

Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the temporal lobes. cerebellum. olfactory cortex. frontal lobes.

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Holding a heavy rather than a light clipboard 18. leads people to perceive job candidates as more important. This best illustrates the volley principle. psychokinesis. embodied cognition. the McGurk effect.

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Psychics are unable to make millions of dollars betting on horse races. This 19. undermines their claims to possess the power of clairvoyance. interposition. precognition. telepathy.

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