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At the musical he attended over the weekend, Andrew noticed that whenever the red and green spotlights overlapped, they seemed to change to a yellow spotlight. This can be explained using the principles of

A) additive color mixing.
B) subtractive color mixing.
C) hypercomplex feature detection.
D) opponent-processing of colors.

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The lens in the eye

A) converts light energy into neural energy.
B) controls the amount of light entering the eye.
C) bends entering light rays and focuses them onto the retina.
D) is the part of the eye that gives it its color.

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Sally woke up in the middle of the night and turned on the light in her bedroom, as a result she had to squint to ward off the bright light. Sally is experiencing

The moon illusion is the moon appears ____ when near the horizon than when overhead and is explained by ____.

You enter a room and notice a distinctive new smell. After a bit of time you no longer smell the odor. This illustrates the phenomenon of

In the signal-detection method, if a subject fails to detects a stimulus when a stimulus is actually present, this would be a

The moon illusion occurs when you

Sound is a ____ form of energy and is the result of ____.

Which type of signal-detection error becomes more likely when the expectation of a stimulus is weak?

The structure of the eye that focuses light rays on the retina is the

If a subject is presented with a series of pairs of light bulbs of different wattages and is asked whether the members of each pair differ in brightness, which of the following is being measured?

Perceptual constancy refers to

The depth perception cue based on the observation that parallel lines converge in the distance is

The wavelength of light mainly affects our perception of

Susan can see distant objects clearly, but close objects appear blurry to her. Susan

Hering's opponent-process theory suggests that receptors are linked antagonistically in pairs. His opposed pairs were

Which of the following is NOT one of the three pairs of opponent colors consistent with the opponent process theory of color vision?

The ability to rapidly process words in reading depends MOST on

Reversible figures illustrate the observation that

Ron is making potato soup. His roommate tastes it and tells Ron it is great, but Ron thinks it needs more salt. He adds just a little salt, and thinks the soup now tastes perfect. However, his roommate tastes it again and tells Ron that the soup is ruined because it is too salty. Apparently, for the taste of salt