Hartline et al. (1956 ) selected the Limulus to demonstrate lateral inhibition because _____
A) ?it was possible to illuminate a single receptor without illuminating its adjacent receptor
B) ?it was readily available to him and was extremely easy to breed in the lab
C) ?the Limulus eye contained more cones than rods
D) ?the Limulus has excellent color vision
A
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a. heuristic. b. algorithm. c. intuition. d. random search strategy.
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a) unconditioned stimuli. b) conditioned responses. c) conditioned stimuli. d) unconditioned responses.
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