According to the opponent-process theory of color vision, you should predict that cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus that are activated when the eye is stimulated by yellow light will be inhibited when the eye is stimulated by light that is:
a. red
b. green
c. blue
d. any other color
C
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a. closure b. continuation c. figure-ground d. contiguity
What did Langille and colleagues find in their extensive Canadian Heart Health study on 5,000 men and women?
a) Over half of those surveyed were hypertensive. b) About half had three or more major risk factors. c) Over half of those with hypertension were untreated. d) All of the above
The embryonic period occurs from _____ weeks to eight weeks after conception
A. one. B. two C. three D. four
The psychoanalytic perspective is no longer in the mainstream of child development research, in part because ________
A) theorists were so committed to in-depth study of individuals that they failed to consider other methods B) it focused too heavily on individuals in non-Western cultures C) subsequent research failed to replicate the results of psychoanalytic studies D) many psychoanalytic ideas are too complex to be tested empirically