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The amplitude of electromagnetic waves determines the ________ of light.

A) jnd
B) brightness
C) hue
D) wavelength

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You are more likely to feel tickled by a good friend's touch than when the very same touch is initiated by someone you don't know.This best illustrates that our experience of touch is influenced by

A) phantom limb sensations.
B) top-down processing.
C) sensory adaptation.
D) synesthesia.

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Clairvoyance refers to the

Some combination of place theory and frequency theory appears to be most necessary in accounting for how we sense

The adjustable opening in the center of the eye is the

The fusiform face area helps you to

Rudy claims that his special psychic powers enable him to correctly anticipate whether the outcome of a coin toss will be heads or tails.Rudy is claiming to possess the power of

During the months when there is a large amount of pollen in the air,your hay fever severely affects your sense of smell.At the same time,your food all seems to taste the same.This illustrates the importance of

You are in an unfamiliar setting and your eyes are closed.Which of the following sounds would be hardest for you to locate correctly?

The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item into separate words best illustrates the principle of

Heather Sellers suffers from prosopagnosia and is unable to recognize her own face in a photograph.Her difficulty stems from a deficiency in

According to the opponent-process theory,cells that are turned "on" by

The area of the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye is called the

Schemas are best described as

In the historical controversy over the dynamics of perception,________ was to nature as ________ was to nurture.

When viewing an object,we typically assume that the light originates from ________ the object.

The area in your visual field that contains no receptor cells is the

Who first hypothesized that the eye must have three different types of color receptors,with each especially sensitive to one of the three primary colors?

The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as

The principle of continuity refers to the perceptual tendency to