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1 the maximum firing rate for individual neurons is 1000 neural impulses per second this biological limitation would
1 the theory of hearing that views the basilar membrane as being like a drumhead isa place theoryb timpani theoryc
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1 if a 100-hz tone had to be increased to 110 hz for a subject to just notice the difference you would predict that a
1 the two major cues we use to localize sound sources in space area distance and loudnessb intensity and timing
1 the theorist who advanced the wish-fulfillment idea about dreaming wasa cartwrightb hobsonc mccarleyd freud2 caffeine
1 stimulation of sensory receptors of the skin is processed by thea septal cortex which is located in the cerebellumb
1 if the human eye was not responsive to differences in the amplitude of light waves we would not be able to perceive
1 the ames room in which people are seen to get smaller or enlarge as they move about demonstrates that our perception
1 the amount of light entering the eye is regulated by changes in the size of thea pupilb lensc cornead retina2 which
1 in general as the cycle of sleep recurs through the night it tneds to containa more stage 4 and less remb more stage
1 which of the following has been used with modest success in the treatment of narcolepsya group therapyb
1 in the united states melatonin is classified asa a steroidb a narcoticc a form of caffeined a dietary supplement2
1 evelyn turned the thermostat up from 68 degrees to 70 degrees however she doesnt think it feels any warmer and she
1 research has revealed that most dreams area about fairly normal activitiesb about fairly bizarre activitiesc random
1 the ability to rapidly process words in reading depends most ona top-down processingb bottom-up processingc
1 optical illusions tend to bea influenced by our experiencesb more pronounced in childrenc less pronounced in adultsd
1 complex cells in the visual cortex respond toa circles of light anwhere in their receptive fieldb specific widths and
1 if the pathway through the superior colliculus were not functioning correctly you might expect that a person would
according to one theory of color vision colors are signaled in pairs by neurons that fire faster to one color and
1 sensory adaptation refers toa a weakening of a neurotransmitter substanceb a perceptual inversion principlec a
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the purity of a wavelength of light corresponds to the perception ofa hueb saturationc brightnessd color
in the featured study on perceiving geographical slant proffitt and his colleagues 1995 founda participants tended to
parallel processing in the visual pathways suggests that separate neural channelsa do the same things at different