Which theory of color vision seems to explain color blindness better than it explains negative afterimages?
a. Frequency theory
b. Volley theory
c. Trichromatic theory
d. Opponent-process theory
Answer: c. Trichromatic theory
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Matthew did not awaken when his rather noisy roommate came back to their dorm room in the very early hours of the morning. It is most likely that Matthew's failure to hear the disturbance resulted from a. inner ear damage suffered as a result of attending too many loud heavy metal concerts
b. input from the reticular formation to the medial geniculate nucleus that adjusted his hearing to his state of consciousness. c. stimulation of his superior olivary nucleus that temporarily made his inner hair cells less sensitive. d. a temporary deficit in glutamate in his inner hair cells.
The main difference between James's peripheral theory and Cannon's central theory of emotion is that
A. the transfer of excitation can be adequately explained only by the Cannon central theory. B. in James's peripheral theory the thalamus plays a decisive role. C. Cannon's central theory says that the brain directly creates the experience of emotion. D. in James's peripheral theory cognitive appraisal of what caused your responses is especially important.
Why is Watson and Rayner's famous study demonstrating the learning of fear in a young boy unlikely to ever be repeated?
a. Evolutionary psychology has given us an innate resistance to the fear of harmless animals. b. Behaviorism, which formed the basis of Watson and Rayner's theory, is no longer a viable psychological perspective. c. There are serious questions about the ethics of inducing fear in a child for research purposes. d. The child in the initial study was irreversibly damaged from the experiment, and Watson and Rayner recanted their own findings as a result of that damage.