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Conscious evaluations of a facial image can be affected by subliminal priming.This best illustrates

A) Weber's law.
B) prosopagnosia.
C) sensory adaptation.
D) the two-track mind.

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Question 182

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People are more likely to perceive a figure and ground illustration as reversible if they are told it is reversible.This best illustrates the importance of

A) interposition.
B) retinal disparity.
C) perceptual adaptation.
D) top-down processing.

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Question 183

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Sensory receptors in our skin that detect hurtful temperatures,pressure,or chemicals are called

According to Weber's law,to be perceived as different,two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum

If you burn your finger,________ transmit pain-triggering signals to your central nervous system.

The tendency to hear the steady drip of a leaky sink faucet as if it were a repeating rhythm of two or more beats best illustrates

The impact of experience on perception is most clearly illustrated by

Burn victims have experienced reduced levels of pain thanks to the distraction of

The amplitude of electromagnetic waves determines the ________ of light.

We perceive motion partly on the assumption that shrinking objects are

Mr.Watkins had been blind from birth.Although corrective eye surgery enabled him to see,he was unable to visually distinguish a spoon from a key.This fact would serve to support the position advanced by

The ability to adjust to changed sensory input is called

A sense of relaxation is most likely to be associated with

Who first proposed the opponent-process theory of color vision?

A drink's strawberry odor enhances our perception of its sweetness.This best illustrates

Although Manuel was sitting right next to his parents,he smelled a skunk minutes before they did.Apparently,Manuel has a lower ________ for skunk odor than his parents have.

According to the opponent-process theory,cells that are turned "on" by ________ light are turned "off" by ________ light.

The influence of schemas on our interpretations of unfamiliar information best illustrates

Research indicates that we have a receptor for a fifth taste sensation,the meaty taste of

Light rays passing through the pupil cast an upside-down image on the