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Accommodation refers to the

A) diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus.
B) quivering eye movements that enable the retina to detect continuous stimulation.
C) process by which stimulus energies are changed into neural messages.
D) process by which the lens changes shape to focus images on the retina.

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The impact of experience on perception is most clearly illustrated by

A) relative luminance.
B) retinal disparity.
C) the volley principle.
D) perceptual adaptation.

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A subliminal message is one that is presented

The ability to almost instantly recognize a familiar face best illustrates the value of

Bottom-up processing involves analysis that begins with the

After the invisible word "bread" was quickly flashed and then replaced by a masking stimulus, observers detected the related word "butter" much faster than the unrelated word "bubble." This best illustrates the impact of

In the opponent-process theory, the three pairs of processes are

Experiencing an apple as being red is to ________ as recognizing an apple as being a fruit is to ________.

The organizational rules identified by Gestalt psychologists illustrate that

Alex tickles his brother by stroking adjacent ________ spots on his skin.

Which of the following is NOT a monocular depth cue?

Andre claims that he can make a broken watch begin to run again simply by entering a state of intense mental concentration. Andre is claiming to possess the power of

Individual nerve cells increase the frequency of neural impulses in the auditory nerve by firing in rapid succession. This is said to illustrate

The principle of continuity refers to the perceptual tendency to

Sensory interaction is best illustrated by

A floating ship is to the ocean water as ________ is to ________.

On the way to the temporal lobe's auditory cortex, neural impulses from the auditory nerve are first relayed to the

Eardrum vibrations are transmitted by three tiny bones located in the

Immanuel Kant and John Locke would have been most likely to disagree about the extent to which perception is influenced by

The perceived lightness of an object depends on relative luminance. This provides an illustration of