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1 the brain structure that appears to be the most important to sleep and wakefulness is thea reticular formationb
1 clifford was in an accident and he has lost all the hearing in his righ ear the deafness in this ear will mostly
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
1 of the following statements regarding sleepwalking which is most accuratea sleepwalking occurs in a rem sleepb it is
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