If you were to take a sparkler at a July 4th

picnic and "draw" your name in the air, your ability to see the light trail after the initial stimulus is facilitated by:
a) persistence of vision.

b) end-stopped neurons.
c) bottom-up processing.
d) top-down processing.


ANS: a

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Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.

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Modern evolutionary social psychologists believe that

A) human social behaviors are wired in at birth and can't be changed. B) human behavior is an interaction between biological influences and the environment. C) animal behavior is wired in at birth, but human behavior is a result of the environment. D) most social behavior is learned.

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A. locus coeruleus B. raphe nucleus C. ventrolateral preoptic nucleus D. PPT/LDT

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